Top U.S. Commander In The Middle East Warns About Syria And Iran

Gen. James Mattis, right, talks with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey. Photo: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Military’s Mideast Chief Sounds Ready to Aid Syria’s Rebels -- The Danger Room

Marine Gen. James Mattis, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, didn’t come out and endorse U.S. intervention in Syria. But he did everything short of it, playing up the opportunity for the U.S. to bloody the nose of an Iranian proxy. Mattis told a Senate panel that knocking off dictator Bashar Assad would represent “the biggest strategic setback for Iran in 25 years.”

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