Guno צְבִי (11-15-2020), Phantasmal (11-15-2020), Trumpet (11-15-2020)
God Bless all of our service men and women.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/polit...oil/index.html
"We are unique among militaries. We do not take an oath to a king or a queen, a tyrant or a dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual. No, we do not take an oath to a country, a tribe or religion. We take an oath to the Constitution. And every soldier that is represented in this museum, every sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman, each of us will protect and defend that document, regardless of personal price," Milley said during remarks at the opening of the US Army's museum.
While Milley routinely references the military's oath to uphold the Constitution, he chose to reinforce that message during his first public remarks following the major shakeup of the Pentagon's senior civilian leadership.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Guno צְבִי (11-15-2020), Phantasmal (11-15-2020), Trumpet (11-15-2020)
Doc Dutch (11-15-2020), Frank Apisa (11-15-2020), Guno צְבִי (11-15-2020), Trumpet (11-15-2020)
Agreed. It's an odd position for a General to be working for the duly elected nutjob in the White House. The mass number of memoirs by senior military and civilian officials coming out over the next year or two about the Trump years will help fill in the blanks on just how fucked up Trump really was as President.
Trump's "disinfectant" remark was just a public taste of what was happening behind closed doors.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Guno צְבִי (11-15-2020), Phantasmal (11-15-2020)
This is very scary, Trump replacing top position in the Pentagon with his lackeys, does this mean that Trump is desperate enough to use the military for a take over??????
Lock Him Up
Doc Dutch (11-15-2020), Guno צְבִי (11-15-2020)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Guno צְבִי (11-15-2020)
Doc Dutch (11-15-2020)
Miller as in Nazi Stephen?
The comments by General Milley haven't been the first time he's been compelled to speak out against Trump's unAmerican actions.
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/20...ys-mum/169334/
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is speaking his mind.
In June, he publicly apologized for taking part in President Trump’s controversial walk across Lafayette Square after police had used tear gas and rubber bullets to clear protesters from the area. In July, he slammed the Confederacy as “treason,” even as Trump was embracing symbols of the failed secessionist movement. And then in an interview with NPR on Sunday, he cast doubt on announcements by Trump and National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien that the United States was severely cutting its troops in Afghanistan in the coming months, saying that “Robert O'Brien or anyone else can speculate as they see fit.”
By any measure, it’s a remarkable string of public pronouncements in an administration not known to brook dissent from senior officials. And yet, multiple White House officials told Defense One they have heard no hint of any grumbling from the Oval Office about Milley — and the president, known for airing his feelings about his own officials on Twitter, has given no public hint of dissatisfaction. If there is a single member of Trump’s administration who seems to be able to get away with contradicting the president, it’s the blunt-talking Princeton graduate Trump selected over the apparent front-runner to be his top military advisor....
Milley has also been perhaps the most clear-spoken defense official in the Pentagon’s efforts to steer clear of the toxic partisan politics surrounding the 2020 election. As fears have grown that there will be civil unrest on or after election day, Milley has sought to articulate the limitations of any role the military might play in quelling it. Those full-throated replies have earned the approval of even Democratic members of Congress.
...“I feel that he is right now grappling with his role as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as the highest-ranking member of our military in uniform, and his role and responsibility to the Constitution and the protection of our troops,” said Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., a former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Doc Dutch (11-15-2020)
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