Milley’s insubordination was not ‘courageous’

National Review’s Nate Hochman writes, “Bob Woodward thinks General Mark Milley’s secret talks with the Chinese military were “courageous.” In the face of the existential threat that Donald Trump posed to the republic, “the one courageous person who did something was General Milley,” the Washington Post journalist told Stephen Colbert in a Tuesday night interview…

Milley might think his judgment was more sound than that of the man that Americans elected president in 2016, but—as luck would have it—our Founders gave us a political system in which unelected appointees don’t get to make those kinds of determinations.https://t.co/qR4yBc9qIF

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) September 24, 2021

…seizing power was exactly what Milley was doing. The nation’s highest-ranking military officer was taking matters into his own hands because he trusted his own judgment better than that of the man that Americans had elected to preside over the federal government. As the editors of National Review wrote last week, ‘Generals don’t get to have their own personal foreign policies. Period. They answer to the elected branches, and they must carry out every lawful directive and policy set by the people’s representatives.”

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