(#4612) No dereliction of duty by General Milley

      To hear the republicans talk about General Milley, you would think he was a traitor or something. This is just another reason why I despise the republican party. All he did was ram home with the personnel that would have been advised by trump to start a nuclear war with China that he needed to be in the loop. Not that he was required to be in the loop but that he was adamant that he should be kept informed if a nuclear trigger were ordered. He also let his counterpart in China know that the United States had no intent to attack them out of the blue. These are wise and correct moves by the chief of staff of our national military.
     If I had been him I would have done anything necessary within the scope of my duties to prevent an unstable president from doing something so horrid as to initiate an attack on anyone in order to remain in office as a strategy. General Milley was in the small circle that regularly met with trump so it isn't as if he couldn't see the desperation of trump to pull out all the stops to remain in office. As the truth of the trump desperation in several areas of his control have come to light it was an imperative that General Milley pushed the envelope of his ability to thwart a horrific scenario that would not only cost American lives but would put the world on the edge of mass disaster and humanity at the edge of extinction.
     General Milley may take some heat from his decision to protect America and American lives but to me he is a hero to civilized behavior and a stalwart defender of the democratic rule of our government. That the republican party is the defender of trump and his irrational behavior is just another reason for me to dismiss the attacks they are aiming at General Milley. I instead focus on the fact that General Milley took steps that help insure not only a transfer of power, regardless if it was peaceful, which we know it was not, but he also instilled faith in the rest of us that there was someone close to trump's inner circle who would be willing to fall on his sword if it meant preserving our democracy, by stopping trump from killing our citizens for his own personal gain.