Posted on 09/15/2021 5:21:59 AM PDT by karpov
If we did not already have enough reasons to believe that General Mark Milley has no business serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, today’s blockbuster story in the Washington Post, excerpted from the Bob Woodward/Robert Costa book Peril, should confirm this. Any Congress worthy of the name in a democracy would open an investigation of General Milley and push for his removal; any president who took his oath seriously would fire him immediately.
Here is what Woodward and Costa report, apparently from General Milley’s own mouth as one of their principal sources for the book:
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Now, what General Milley did in this instance is not, in the proper sense of the word, treason, given that China is not an open enemy in war. [UPDATE: On further reflection, however, it could be construed as an offer to commit treason, given that the promise to give notice of a future attack presupposes action at odds with a direct, armed conflict ordered by the commander in chief.] It probably violates the terms of the Logan Act, but that statute is possibly unconstitutional and should be repealed. (I confess I do not know enough of the Uniform Code of Military Justice to say whether or not this violates any of its provisions.) It is not even quite a military coup. But it skates awfully close to that line.
There is no circumstance in which an American military officer should be conducting his own rogue foreign policy without informing the civilian leadership. That strikes directly at the heart of our democratic, constitutional system, in which the elected president and Congress — and the appointees who are chosen by the president and report to him — make the major foreign-policy decisions, and the military must carry them out.
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Wait, TREASON equates to just be fired?
W T F world am I living in?!
I’m not going to get too worked up over this. Reading the tea leaves, the story was published in the WaPo, which is a traditional “friend” of the intelligence community I believe. So it is possibly a fight between some in DOD and some in intelligence.
But a treasonous chief of staff would tend to hurt President Biden and the Democrats, which the WaPo is unlikely to do. So what else could be going on?
Reading Solzhenitsyn and others with experience of communist regimes leads me to speculate that Milley will not be forced out. Instead, the regime will force patriots to accept him as the military’s highest officer.
Message to “Trump-supporter domestic terrorists”? One we have heard before, but with emphasis. “We are the power you must bow down to. If not, it’s General Milley with the F-15s and nukes for you.”
Pure speculation at this point, but it fits with who they are. Time will tell.
The JCS serves at the pleasure of the POTUS. If not fired he should resign.
He should be hung for treason.
I agree with every word you wrote.
But there are people on this thread who believe that to disobey an order from the Commander in Chief to nuke Paris would be treason, and that’s just not so.
Fired? Sure; then arrested, court-martialed and imprisoned for TREASON.
But the winner of the confrontation gets to decide which orders were "lawful".
If the troops are ordered to confiscate all civilian-owned firearms, how many of them will refuse based on the "shall not be infringed" phrase of the second amendment? The true law of the land.
Simple resist. Throw the same bs we hear: posse commitatus.
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