Rich mentioned this story about General Mattis yesterday. But I think it’s heartening that — so far — this hasn’t turned into a politically correct brouhaha. Mattis said at a conference:

“Actually it’s quite fun to fight ‘em, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up front with you, I like brawling,” said Mattis.
“You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil,” Mattis said during a panel discussion. “You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them.”

Now with all the usual caveats aside, I just think it’s great that we’ve got military leaders who want to kill the right people. That’s what we have military’s for. Or at least it’s one of the reasons. That doesn’t mean he shouldn’t play by the right rules and keep political and strategic objectives in mind. But by all accounts he did that. And at the end of the day we have a military to kill the bad guys.

Besides if you want to see what a real bloodthirsty speech by an American general is like I refer you — once again — to Patton’s humdinger. [Note: Much profanity]