Opinion | Gen. Mark Milley Reminisces About the Battle of the Beltway

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From WSJopinion: Gen. Mark Milley is a courageous and honorable man who served his country with uncommon gallantry, but his repeatedly demonstrated valor shouldn’t inoculate him from accountability for his words, writes GerardTBaker

Gen. Mark Milley is a courageous and honorable man who has served his country with uncommon gallantry. There are few less edifying spectacles in modern life than to watch those whose military experience never went beyond playing with GI Joes sneerily denounce the actions of men who have repeatedly put their lives on the line for their country.

But his repeatedly demonstrated valor shouldn’t inoculate him from accountability for his words. By all accounts Gen. Milley is a thoughtful man and that should equip him to understand that he has made a grave mistake that risks great harm to his own reputation and to the trust Americans place in the integrity of their military.

This isn’t a complaint about his apparent genuflection to the postmodern cultural orthodoxy of inherent white sinfulness . The more immediate damage Gen. Milley risks stems from his decision to spend much of the past six months apparently scripting his own John Frankenheimer remake for the benefit of eager journalists and his approving masters in the White House.

Gen. Milley is a keen student of history, and in these florid accounts we are invited to see a man who identifies with Benjamin Franklin and his fellow revolutionaries in ”all hanging together” against President Trump, and who lets us know that if only he’d been around in 1933, the Reichstag Fire wouldn’t have led to the Nazis’ seizure of power.

 

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opinion gerardtbaker You’d think the WSJ FT’s would know better- they’re playing to Trumpies to increase profits. Gen. Milley isn’t the only one of the conservative arm of the military who has raised the alarm. WSJ should get their shit together. A guy named “Mad Dog” Mattis has said the same thing!

opinion gerardtbaker But is the doubt that WSJ injects by which tries to divert the attention to trivial matter and not emphasis the grievous, egregious and irreparable wrong that has been done to the nation.

opinion gerardtbaker What he said was right. He wants to protect our democracy, something you forgot how to do a long time ago.

opinion gerardtbaker WSJ. You guys are beneath contempt. Not fit to shine his shoes.

opinion gerardtbaker For the WSJ editorial page, only Donald Trump is inoculated from his words and actions

opinion gerardtbaker Writer doing a bit of a Brutus here - quite a bit of back stabbing

opinion gerardtbaker He does not understand history nor the significance of the 'Reichstag moment' nor the context in which it took place. Everything that happened both before and after it were totally legal according to the constitution and the power vested in President Von Hindenburg. No coup.

opinion gerardtbaker Custer was courageous

opinion gerardtbaker Japan Olympics should be canceled immediately

opinion gerardtbaker No, it only makes him more heroic.

opinion gerardtbaker It's not a wise move for WSJ to go after Gen. Milley. WSJ should stick to what they do best and stop the half-arsed attempts at sullying this man's name and reputation.

opinion gerardtbaker what's wrong with a lil delusional self-aggrandizement?

opinion gerardtbaker Mental pandemic patient.

opinion gerardtbaker Just because he was the POTUS shouldn't inoculate Mr. Trump from being held accountable for his words.

opinion gerardtbaker account him,account supreme court, account witch,mummy and soucer, and domestic terrorists. account cia and fbi.

opinion gerardtbaker

opinion gerardtbaker eğer o duruma el koysaydı, mumya ne yapardı.

opinion gerardtbaker When you read this, just bear in mind that WSJ is a Murdoch publication; favourable to Trump.

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