we are engaged in afghanistan. we re engaged in iraq and syria. all these are military engagements where diplomacy and intelligence sometimes are secondary. i think this is a broader issue about where america is headed overseas and how it deploys power. general, there is an assumption being made when it comes to someone like general mattis there will be a loyalty to trump as kind of an extension of chain of command. but what happens with gentlemen like this in your knowledge. if trump wants something, hey, they just did something horrible to us overseas. torture is back and bigger and better than ever. doesn t general mattis have the back bone to stand up to the commander in chief in that regard or would he just respect the word from above automatically? i don t believe that s the case, phil. i think a lot of americans have a mispersonification of the military on that that we just obey orders robotically. when they put their hands on the bible and swear their oath when