Suomeen saapuva James "Mad Dog" Mattis on soturimunkki, joka tuntee hyvin suomalaista puolustuspolitiikkaa Jussi Niinistö saa vieraakseen jäyhän ja alkoholia välttelevän Yhdysvaltojen puolustusministerin. James Norman Mattis 4.11.2017 11:42, päivitetty 12:43 https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-9916737
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The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017 ... washington
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Mattis fulfills every aspect of the Marine ideal. At sixty-six, he remains trim, and he pushes himself relentlessly. People often describe him as a “warrior monk,” and though he likes to respond that the only monastery he’d enjoy is one supplied with “beer and ladies,” he acts the part. He rarely drinks and has little in the way of a social life. “He’s the most self-disciplined person I’ve ever known,” Mike Ennis, a retired two-star general who roomed with Mattis when they were lieutenants on Okinawa, forty years ago, told me. Mattis is known almost universally among colleagues for his honesty. “Jim Mattis has more integrity in his little finger than almost anyone in Washington,” Michèle Flournoy, an Under-Secretary of Defense under Obama, told me.
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