Op-Ed: Gen. Milley did the wrong thing for honorable reasons. We need new rules for starting nuclear war

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Op-Ed: Gen. Milley did the wrong thing for honorable reasons. We need new rules for starting nuclear war (via latimesopinion)

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A new book by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa contains a singularly startling allegation. In the waning weeks of the Trump administration, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, twice called his counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng, of the People’s Liberation Army, offering assurances that the United States was not about to launch an attack against China., “I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.

Of course, all of this happened in a specific context: Woodward and Costa’s chilling account is only the latest to depict the unraveling Trump presidency following the November election. Unwilling to accept defeat, the incumbent all but ceased to govern and instead devoted himself to overturning the election’s results by any means necessary, violating the rule of law and waiving the Constitution.By statute, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffthe commander-in-chief.

The practice is also bizarre and dangerous in the extreme, as the meltdown that concluded the Trump presidency should remind us. And to suggest that Trump’s departure from office eliminates that danger overlooks the very real possibility that another Trump-like figure — or Trump himself — may win the White House again. Americans are not immune from conferring the presidency on figures who may not be models of stability and good sense.

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opinion So, it’s not insane for Milley and Pelosi to conspire to commit treason because they imagined Trump would try to randomly launch nuclear weapons? Lacking an order from the President, what evidence did they have that would happen? This was TDS to the extreme.

opinion Thank goodness for General Milley!! American hero!

opinion Realizing that he was under the command of an unhinged,unstable,megalomaniacal fool, Milley had to choose between being a traitor to his country or a traitor to humanity. “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

opinion Thank you, Gen. Milley. You did the right thing for the right reason. Now it's time to fix the flaw before it happens again. Anyone want to do anything about it before we get another loose cannon in control?

opinion Treason is treason.

opinion Benedict Arnold did it for honorable reasons. That's a wild take LAT

opinion the responsible thing. like the soviet colonel who resisted launching a counterstrike when somebody loaded a drill into the system. professionals.

opinion nice

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