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Mattis was with a small group of Marines in Iraq when a Sunni Arab man was captured planting a bomb on a road nearby. Told the captured insurgent spoke English, Mattis offered him a cigarette and coffee, after which the man told him that he resented the American soldiers in his country.
The man then asked Mattis a surprising question, the Associated Press reports.
"General," he asked, "if I am a model prisoner do you think someday I could emigrate to America?"
For Mattis, the question represented America’s power to inspire.
Mattis Recalls a Question He was Asked By a Prisoner Who Attempted to Assassinate Him in Iraq
Mattis was with a small group of Marines in Iraq when a Sunni Arab man was captured planting a bomb on a road nearby. Told the captured insurgent spoke English, Mattis offered him a cigarette and coffee, after which the man told him that he resented the American soldiers in his country.
The man then asked Mattis a surprising question, the Associated Press reports.
"General," he asked, "if I am a model prisoner do you think someday I could emigrate to America?"
For Mattis, the question represented America’s power to inspire.
Mattis Recalls a Question He was Asked By a Prisoner Who Attempted to Assassinate Him in Iraq
