{"id":15845,"date":"2026-03-28T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15845"},"modified":"2026-03-28T03:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:50:28","slug":"trump-former-defense-secretary-comments-on-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15845","title":{"rendered":"Trump former Defense Secretary comments on Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>General James Mattis who was the defense secretary from 2017-2019 but did not see eye to eye with Trump. Here are two excerpts from his recent interview with Margaret Hoover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/firing-line\/\">Firing Line<\/a>.  The show is an attempt to mimic the original Firing Line with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firing_Line_%28TV_program%29\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firing_Line_%28TV_program%29\">William F. Buckley Jr. <\/a>but no one will mistake Hoover&#8217;s intellect  with Buckley&#8217;s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"It\u2019s \u201cvery unlikely\u201d that this Iranian regime falls right now\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HgXLmPvu28Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And this where Mattis answers the question &#8220;Do we need allies in addition to Israel?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201cThere&#039;s a sense that we are not a reliable security partner right now\u201d\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/buCfeHFFuxg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General James Mattis who was the defense secretary from 2017-2019 but did not see eye to eye with Trump. Here are two excerpts from his recent interview with Margaret Hoover of Firing Line. The show is an attempt to mimic the original Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. but no one will mistake Hoover&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-politics","category-international-stuff","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15846,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845\/revisions\/15846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}