At Strategy Page retired Colonel Austin Bay looks at the magnitude of the crime committed by General Mark Milley:
Milley spoke with senior Chinese military officers. Missing in action: the subject Milley addressed was potential U.S. military action against the nation that is America’s most potent adversary. More missing facts: Milley spoke to the Chinese officers without approval from Trump. Reflect for a moment and it sounds like Milley acted on his own self-serving Hollywood script, not on evidence Trump was preparing to start a war.
The Beltway is a vicious high school of a sort, but unfortunately its viciousness isn’t Mean Girls wrestling with fantasy crises. In Milley’s case, we’re confronting the abrogation of the constitutional order of the military under civilian control and ultimately the U.S. military’s duty to defend America regardless of the party or personality of the president.
Fact for Milley: Senior Chinese military officers are members of the Chinese Communist Party. Tiananmen Square. Hong Kong absorption. Uighur genocide. The Chinese military is a Party tool, Mark, a violent tool.
Milley’s short-sighted and, I argue, savvily self-serving action weakened U.S. national security and put the U.S. constitutional system at risk.
Milley’s actions are another example of the destructive perception warfare waged against the American people by powerful Beltway elites — and the worst examples of this war are perpetrated by power elites in the Democratic Party, to include President Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton.
It’s a benevolent coincidence that last week Special Counsel John Durham indicted former Hillary Clinton campaign paid lawyer Michael Sussman. The Clinton campaign’s Russia collusion lie compromised and ultimately sacrificed the FBI’s counterintelligence security function and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court’s credibility to Hillary’s personal political goals. Her goals superseded American security. Hillary’s collusion crock was hatched to distract from her criminal abuse of classified information. The payoff for some of the actors? According to Durham’s indictment, positions in her administration. For the New York Times and Washington Post? Media Pulitzers for pushing a total lie.
Mark Milley violated constitutional order and subverted the chain of command. Why? His goal doesn’t matter, but here’s my guess: to secure the largesse of Biden and the Beltway media.
Try Milley by court martial, convict and sentence him to Fort Leavenworth’s Long Course. At Leavenworth, he can discuss perception warfare with his sledge while he whacks a rock.
Go here to read the rest. So, we currently have perhaps a third of the military facing dishonorable discharge for refusing to take an untested, rushed vaccine, with reported potential side effects, for a disease which has a 99% survival rate, while General Mark Milley skates for committing near treason. Trump, the great revealer, causes another American institution to demonstrate that it is rotten from stem to stern.
Keep the powder dry Patriots.
Sending Milley to Leavenworth would be an insult to the resident military convicts.
General Milley is two-faced. I posted this video as a comment to a different post here at TAC. Start at the 12 minute and 27 second point:
This is outrageous. Surely if he talked to NATO ally flag officer he would need somebody’s permission and have to keep a log. How can he get away with secret contact with enemy commanders?
“How can he get away with “. A lack of fortitude from Republicans in positions of power. How much of McConnel’s fortune comes from his wife’s family’s Chinese connections? Crickets from Kevin McCarthy. Only a few brave ones like Josh Hawley. It took a Trump to smoke out the quislings. God Bless the man. Sadly, he is more Catholic than the Pope and a majority of Bishops.
Robert Mueller, Mark Milley, Christopher Wray, Andrew McCabe, and Peter Sztrok all have one biographical datum in common, one that sets them apart from 98% of those in their respective cohorts: they attended (1) a boarding school or (2) a day school of a sort which draws from the same sort of clientele. Dead Poets Society, heckuva job.
Yes, this is on the supposed adults in the room. Too many Republicans are scared of their own shadows. It’s no different in the Church. Show me a bishop or priest who will properly criticize the heretic James Martin, the unworthy reception of the Eucharist, the world’s promotion of homosexuality or a myriad of other social positions the Left uses to destroy young people. The cowardice is endemic. We even had an intention Sunday to pray for the Pope’s health. Really? How about praying for his soul. The Gospel reading was quite clear that if your eye causes you to sin, you would be better to pluck it out then enter Hell with both eyes. Well, the Pope’s physical health is the least of his worries.
More anti-military sentiment from the political arm of the National Catholic Reporter. Donald McClarey’s whining because he did not have the courage to serve. If he bothered to actually read Early Bird, he would of realized the communication was approved and witnessed by the Secretary of Defense.
More anti-military sentiment from the political arm of the National Catholic Reporter. Donald McClarey’s whining because he did not have the courage to serve.
Actually I served from 1975 to 1978 in the Army, something I have mentioned on this blog. I do confess to amusement at being in anyway linked with the National Catholic Distorter. Milley’s calls were not approved by his commander in chief, and Milley told the Chinese that he would inform them if we were about to attack. Benedict Arnold could not have done worse.
Imagine thinking that criticism of career desk jockeys like Milley is “anti-military.”
Imagine thinking that criticism of career desk jockeys like Milley is “anti-military.”
Have read summaries of his postings. They’re less detailed than is the case with some generals, as in others the dates of his promotions are listed. You see the units to which he was dispatched, but not what he did in those units. He evidently did deploy to Afghanistan at one point and Iraq at another.
Show me a bishop or priest who will properly criticize the heretic James Martin, the unworthy reception of the Eucharist, the world’s promotion of homosexuality or a myriad of other social positions the Left uses to destroy young people.
Wouldn’t bother me much if in their preaching they would (1) stick to the day’s readings and (2) be concise and end with an instruction. It’s worse with protestant clergy, but half the time with the suburban Catholic clergy its a waste because the celebrant is ruminating and you haven’t a clue what he’s driving at. Another peeve: celebrants who begin the homily with apocryphal stories: “There once was a little girl who….”.
I used to know a parochial vicar who would put out engaging readings for his flock in the narthex, but at the parishes I’ve frequented in the last decade, it’s all boilerplate or pap.
Another peeve: votive candles absent or not replaced in a timely fashion.
Another peeve: bishops who do not make the rounds. What do they do on Sunday? I’ve attended masses at the Cathedral in Syracuse, but never saw Bp. Moynihan preside, just the rector, Fr. Quartier.
Another peeve: diocesan newspapers (those still issued), and along with them regular columns by the Bishop. Someone once said of a cousin of mine: “when she spoke, you listened, because you knew she had something to say”. Bishops who serve up pap for the 12 people who read the diocesan rag should take that to heart.
/ rant off.
“Donald McClarey’s whining because he did not have the courage to serve.”
What a freaking insulting thing to say.
True, Mr. McClarey wasn’t a submariner, but we can’t all have been submariners. 😉
Nevertheless, the person who said Mr. McClarey is whining because he didn’t have courage to serve should publicly apologize. If anyone is courageous in this forum, that person would be its founder and administrator, Mr. McClarey.
I always laugh when I see anonymous Internet trolls passing judgment on the mind and heart of someone they almost certainly have never met, and of whom they know nothing beyond a series of blog posts written or sponsored by that someone.
As for Milley, last week my bride and I drove through the eastern and central parts of the Great State of Kansas. We can attest that the countryside around Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks is lovely this time of year. Especially the rock pile.
I long for the days when Washington attempted a prisoner exchange to get Arnold and hang him, Lincoln cashiered McClellan and Truman fired MacArthur. There is good reason for the constitution to place the military under civilian control and as a five year veteran of the Vietnam War, I saw it on numerous occasions.
Mathius L. Egg on your face. What a low-blow and lazy comment. If you want to throw an insult, the least you can do is be “bothered” to get your facts correct.