Posted on 09/19/2021 11:19:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, is an embarrassment to our country. In 2018, President Donald Trump appointed Milley to the position, mainly because former Defense Secretary General James Mattis hated him. Trump had soured on Mattis and fired him from his position. He said that Mattis did not live up to his nickname of “Mad Dog,” but was more of a “Moderate Dog.” Clearly, the president’s antipathy toward Mattis was not a sufficient reason to hire an inept fool like Milley.
Last year, Milley should have been fired when he apologized for walking with President Trump to St. John’s Episcopal Church near the White House. In the mayhem of a riot in Washington D.C., the church was severely damaged and almost burned to the ground. By visiting, the President showed his support for religious freedom and his opposition to the lawlessness that occurred nationwide in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Before leaving, the President was photographed holding a Bible in front of the church.
After backlash from left-wing commentators on social media, Milley apologized. In an address to the National Defense University, Milley said “I should not have been there…My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”
The apology was unnecessary and foolish; however, it did confirm to all Americans that Milley did not support President Trump. It served as his plea to keep the position in the Biden administration. Not surprisingly, Milley was retained by Biden as both share the same ideology and the same level of incompetence.
In June, Milley established his “woke” credentials by decrying the evils of white anger and supporting the study of this topic in the United States military. In congressional testimony, Milley defended the teaching of critical race theory at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
He explained that he needed to “understand White rage and I’m White.” He also claimed that he wanted to learn what “caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America. What caused that?”
There were many people involved in the January 6thevents with different motivations. Of course, over 600 individuals have been arrested for a variety of crimes, such as trespassing, disorderly conduct, etc. Clearly, “thousands of people” did not commit “assault” and probably very few wanted to “overturn” the United States Constitution. Instead of speaking the truth, Milley was spouting left-wing talking points.
Even more troubling than his apology and his congressional testimony was his leadership of the disastrous Afghanistan military withdrawal that produced 13 dead American military service members. In this operation, we left $85 billion in military equipment to the Taliban, the terrorist group now controlling Afghanistan. We also abandoned our air bases, as well as at least 100 Americans and thousands of Afghan allies. The military should have never exited the country before securing the freedom of all Americans.
At the Kabul airport, the Taliban was assisting in security, which resulted in the suicide bombing that killed Americans. Milley and other Biden administration officials had boasted of cooperation with the Taliban and possible future coordination. The Biden administration even praised the Taliban, which adheres to reprehensible religious beliefs, as “business-like and professional.”
Even worse, Taliban “intelligence” may have led to the U.S. drone strike on August 29. Initially, resident Joe Biden and his military leaders praised the bombing of a vehicle allegedly loaded with explosive devices. Supposedly, it stopped ISIS-K terrorists on their way to launch another suicide bombing against Americans at the Kabul airport. General Milley was so excited about the attack that he called it “righteous.”
Tragically, the truth was revealed on Friday by CENTCOM Commander USMC General Kenneth McKenzie. Instead of terrorists, an Afghan aid worker and his seven children were among the ten innocent victims. Instead of bombs, the vehicle was carrying water. Instead of rushing to the airport to bomb Americans, the vehicle was delivering aid to thirsty Afghan citizens. In their haste to do something “strong” after the appalling bombing at the Kabul Airport, Biden and Milley hurriedly authorized a drone strike based on faulty intelligence.
At this point, Congress needs to launch a full-scale investigation into the horrific Afghanistan withdrawal, the Taliban connection to the suicide bombing and the drone strike, and Milley’s activities that were outlined in Peril, the new book by authors Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.
The book discloses that Milley placed two phone calls to his Chinese counterpart, General Li Zuocheng, before the 2020 election and after the tumultuous events of January 6. While military officials claim the calls were “not secret” and routine, they were made without the approval or knowledge of President Trump.
Supposedly, Milley contacted the Chinese to reassure them that we were not going to attack their country. Milley also reportedly pledged to warn them in advance of any potential strike.
The book also reveals that Milley held discussions with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to commiserate about President Trump. In the call, Pelosi labeled Trump “crazy” and Milley responded by saying “I agree with you.” Right after his call to Pelosi, Milley assembled top military officials for a meeting and warned them not to approve any military action without his approval.
Milley was not the President and was not elected by the American people. He had no authorization to conduct secret communications with the foremost enemy of the country. He has been exposed as incompetent, ideological, and disloyal.
At a minimum, Milley should be fired by Biden for his questionable activities. However, Biden will not act for he avowed his “great confidence” in General Milley. Clearly, Biden appreciates his woke attitude and his serious hatred of Trump.
Both fools should resign, but neither of them has the decency to do the right thing. As a result, the entire country may pay a terrible price.
Our entire military is a woke joke, thanks to ALL of our elected AND appointed throwing out the Constitution and swearing in the ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia.
Obama is PRECISELY what the founders were trying to prevent when they insisted on a natural born citizen ONLY as President.
ALL of our generals are Obama generals.
He’s no joke. He’s a treasonous bastid who tried to lead a coup,
Not a joke but a traitor.
He needs to be tied to a post and shot.
Is he trying to say he's not? Sure could have fooled me.
It appears that the other members of the JCS have been very, very quiet lately. They need to be interrogated as to what they knew and when they knew it.
General Milley violated his oath of office. The Constitution unequivocally made the president commander in chief of the military. Therefore, civilian control of the military became sacrosanct and could never be violated. Remember that Truman had to fire MacArthur over that issue.
For proper officer behavior to forestall military actions, Vietnam provides an example. McNamara stood between the JCOS and Johnson about Vietnam. His job became easier, because the JCOS often behaved more like bureaucrats than soldiers, sailors, or airmen.
However, the JCOS finally united, and there was a reckoning described in the article titled “Vietnam 1965: The Day It Became the Longest War”. They were concerned about committing to a land war. After making their presentation, which Johnson turned into a charade, they were treated to an unnerving and degrading performance.
“He screamed obscenities, he cursed them personally, he ridiculed them for coming to his office with their ‘military advice.’ Noting that it was he who was carrying the weight of the free world on his shoulders, he called them filthy names-shitheads, dumb shits, pompous assholes-and used ‘the F-word’ as an adjective more freely than a Marine in boot camp would use it.”
Based on what occurred, the proper course of action for them would have been to resign, and in civilian clothes, hold a press conference to explain their reason for resigning. As junior officers, they had already risked much more than pensions and resumes. If truly disturbed, Milley should have done likewise.
Vietnam 1965: The Day It Became the Longest War http://extendedremarks.blogspot.com/2006/12/vietnam-1965-day-it-became-longest-war.html
The reason the left thinks White Males are a threat to “them” is that they are breaking American Laws and no one can or will hold them accountable (America’s cities have leftist mayors who instruct leftist police chiefs; the Military is Woke) and they fear that a spontaneous movement of those who love their “Country” might declare individual acts of civilian arrest and prosecution of those who are breaking laws.
Imagine if individual Americans arrested those in positions of public trust for that betrayal? Imagine if the NSA aided in providing intelligence to tribunals to try traitors once this got rolling.
Individual Americans could figure out that they can make citizen arrests and detain those mayors, DAs, Police Chiefs, Govonors, etc., for their lawlessness’s activities - if it happend with just 500 good men and women backed by competent lawyers these people could be tried.
In the absence of citizen arrest, it may be possible to bring lawsuits against the leftist’s breaking laws in absenteeism and after they are tried and convicted, then arrested. Could American’s set up private courts with private judges trying these people and convicting them for the Nation to see.
Kangaroo Courts trying Mayors or DAs using a citizen judge holding the actual law books and statutes, and two lawyers with one defense and one for the Public, making the case pro and con - then these courts could actually get a subpoena and get these cases tried again in actual court.
Everybody involved with this has been pretty quiet...or out of the country (Nancy P.).
Very interesting.
Milley was the one doing the ordering so he obviously had no problem with it...but the officers he made swear not to do anything unless ordered by him to do so should surely have realized that they were in Captain Queeg territory.
They were too scared. And they were also scared because they knew that behind him was the most vicious and powerful politician in the US, Nancy Pelosi.
I think that they should keep Milley, Austin, Blinking, et al and not fire them for two reasons: first, any replacement from the currently available pool of queers, freaks, perverts, pedophiles, fools, malcontents, incompetents, criminals, etc. would be worse than the current resident and second, they should remain as an example of what the results are when you let communists rule.
Agree. There is an institution that bred Milley and a thousand more like him. THAT is the real problem. We can get rid of Milley. Reforming a morbidly corrupt institution like DOD, OTOH, is probably impossible.
Milley is anything but silly. He is a dangerous traitor who needs to be court martialed and executed. No other course of action.
The below sentence from the letter comes to mind. Way too few juxtaposition the duty of their current situation with the courage they demonstrated in earlier circumstances. If a person expects to retain their self-respect, they still need face situations where they say, “To hell with you. I’ll go stock shelves at a grocery store”.
“As junior officers, they had already risked much more than pensions and resumes.”
He is not silly. He is a dangerous traitor and needs to be treated accordingly.
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