# Goodbye, General Mattis **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 20, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-general-mattis/826453 "2018-12-20T23:19:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 165
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-general-mattis/826453/165 "2018-12-24T18:26:55Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > The cites show a few dopers showing concern about appointing a general to Secretary of Defense. They don’t show hypocrisy, as that would require showing those posters have changed their opinion about appointing a general to Sec of Defense. … I don’t think I’ve accused anyone of “liberal hypocrisy” in this thread. The closest I got (which was not very close) was an observation that “the concern seems to have flipped on its head”. No reference to political affiliations, or “hypocrisy”, or even individual posters. Just a generalized observation that some of those “diverse and nuanced opinions” expressed when Mattis was coming in were quite opposite those being expressed now that he’s on his way out. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-general-mattis/826453)._