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“The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East,” the retired Marine Corps general warned during a Washington, D.C. speech on Friday.

“For all the talk of ISIS and Al Qaida everywhere right now… they’re a very serious threat. But nothing is as serious in the long term enduring ramifications, in terms of stability and prosperity and some hope for a better future for the young people out there, than Iran.”

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“I’m a great admirer of Gen. Mattis,” said Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain with a grin, refusing to confirm that the blunt-speaking general is in the running, but warmly endorsing the idea.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/19/general-who-thinks-it-s-fun-to-shoot-some-people-is-front-runner-for-trump-s-pentagon.html

“The current situation is unsustainable,” Mattis told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer during a panel discussion at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado when asked about the peace process. “It’s got to be directly addressed. We have got to find a way to make the two-state solution that Democrat and Republican administrations have supported. We’ve got to get there, and the chances for it are starting to ebb because of the settlements, and where they’re at, they’re going to make it impossible to maintain the two-state option.”

Mattis specifically warned that if Israel continued to expand its settlement presence, its long-term character as a Jewish and democratic state would be at risk, ultimately leading to Israel becoming an apartheid state.

“If I’m in Jerusalem and I put 500 Jewish settlers out here to the east and there’s 10,000 Arab settlers in here, if we draw the border to include them, either it ceases to be a Jewish state or you say the Arabs don’t get to vote — apartheid,” he said.

In that same conversation, Mattis told Blitzer that the US paid a price for its support of Israel and the perception of bias it broadcasts to the rest of the Arab world.

“I paid a military security price every day as the commander of CENTCOM because the Americans were seen as biased in support of Israel,” he said, “and that moderates, all the moderate Arabs who want to be with us, because they can’t come out publicly in support of people who don’t show respect for the Arab Palestinians.”

General James "Mad Dog" Mattis, who is being considered for Secretary of Defense, was very impressive yesterday. A true General's General!

Mattis offered little praise for the nuclear deal, saying it's far from "a friendship treaty," but also dismissed Republican claims that the international agreement should be torn up by the next president.

“We are going to have to recognize that we have an imperfect arms control agreement,” he said.

Mattis, who spent almost two years overseeing U.S. military operations in the Middle East, said Obama did not make a mistake trying to engage with Iran, especially given how close the country was to building a nuclear weapon. Military action would have delayed that process only a year or two, he argued. Diplomacy has probably delayed it at least a decade.

“But the mistake was to take our eye off the ball afterward,” he said.