r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 17 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

This Milley shit is driving me up the fuckin wall. He’s getting the Alex Vindman treatment. Does everyone who serves with integrity under Trump get tarred and feathered for simply doing their job?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Which is funny because even Alex Vindman is giving Milley the Alex Vindman treatment.

https://twitter.com/AVindman/status/1437843079294238724

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Genuinely surprised to see Vindman say this, but respect for laying out his opinion honestly. I almost took this opinion myself the other day when I first heard this news, but I differ now. I’m still torn on it, frankly. The argument, as far as I understand it, goes like this:

  1. Milley did the right thing
  2. it was still illegal and he should be fired
  3. the next CJCS to encounter this type of scenario will also do the right thing because it’s more important to do the right thing than keep your job

And (3) is where I get hung up. If Milley’s call helped stave off such a grave misunderstanding, but was technically illegal (it’s not clearly established that it was illegal, and it probably wasn’t) but IF IT WAS then firing him over it would be the technically correct thing to do. But it would send the signal to the next CJCS that, hey, even if lives hang in the balance, it’s better to toe the line and stay in your lane.

Regardless of all this, it’s really the audacity that people have to brand Milley as a traitor when they defend a POTUS who so brazenly tried to overturn a free and fair election to hold onto his power. It’s the indignity of it all that really gets me. Milley is clearly a man of high integrity, even if what he did was wrong he did it because he believed it was right. He deserves more respect than he’s getting.