The title comes from a song by the same name from the excellent Christmas movie musical, White Christmas, starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. I watch it every year, because it reminds me of my Dad, who was a WWII vet. It should be on your Christmas movie list if it isn't already. It'll take you back to a better time, when we were all Americans, regardless of political ideology.
My Dad served honorably, unlike Mark Milley. We now know that Milley, prior to the 2020 election, called his counterpart in China, our most dangerous enemy, and told him that he'd warn him in advance if then-President Trump decided to attack China.
Let that sink in a minute.
This was before the election. President Trump was Milley's Commander-in-Chief, his direct military supervisor in a chain of command that, above all, is not to be breached. Whether he thought Trump was acting erratically is of no relevance. Whether he thought Trump would actually attack China is of no relevance. Whether he thought Trump would win the election is of no relevance.
Although it raises a curious question, does it not? Did Milley expect Trump to behave erratically after the election, because Milley had advance knowledge of the outcome of the election, and thus felt compelled to warn China? Inquiring minds would love to know.
The chain of command is sacrosanct in the military. That's taught in boot camp, and reinforced daily. And Milley violated it, at the highest level. Never mind that we've since learned that he had 15 people in the room; that only makes his act of treason all the more brazen and audacious - and, it means that he compelled 15 other people to commit treason along with him.
Many are now calling for Milley to step down, to resign. Sorry, Mark (he no longer deserves the respectful title of "General" or "Sir"), you don't get off that easy. See, colluding with our enemies is treason, and under the law, there's a pretty clear path of dealing with that.
You face a court-martial. You are stripped of your rank and dishonorably discharged. And then you are hanged.
Now, there are a lot of liberals who are saying that Milley was a hero, because Trump was erratic, and that Milley may have saved us from a nuclear war.
Let me be clear to those who may be reading this, and think that way: I don't give a rat's hindquarters how deep your Trump Derangement Syndrome runs; if you believe that Donald Trump would have attacked China after the 2020 election, you are a drooling idiot who should be institutionalized for the safety of yourself and those around you.
Milley acted not as a military man, but as a partisan civilian (recall that he was also in contact with Trump's political enemies during that time, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, two other boils on the arse of humanity).
So everyone's aware of this by now; everyone knows it's treason, even though any liberal reading this will give Milley a pass for it, just like they gave James Comey and Peter Strzok and Lisa Page a pass for breaking the law while employed by the FBI, even while they watched today's Judiciary Committee hearings over the tragic Olympic sex abuse scandal that the FBI failed to prosecute and even covered up, and demanded that FBI agents be jailed. What fresh perspective on the Milley affair does The Curmudgeon bring?
This: among all the other institutions that have failed us - yes, the FBI; our Congress; our courts; our election system - we now have to add our military.
That's it - we can no longer trust or have faith in our military (and Milley proved that further by his feckless leadership of the Afghanistan withdrawal, because he cares more about white rage within his ranks than about radical Islamic rage against America, woke liberal that he is). Oh, I have nothing but respect for everyone I know who has served and is serving, and I know a member of the planning cell for Operation Geronimo, which took out bin Laden, as well as the Commander of the SEAL team featured in the movie, Lone Survivor.
However, they ultimately take their orders from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. And the current holder of that title, undeserving as he is, is a traitor to the country of which I'm a citizen.
So I don't know when he'll give the order to come to my house and haul me off for my political beliefs, or because I'm suspected of white rage. And because the brave men and women I know who serve today do understand the chain of command, they will obey, just as the soldiers who stood down inside the gates of the Kabul airport, even though you know they wanted desperately to go out and fight to rescue more Americans and Afghan friendlies, obeyed.
Thus, The Curmudgeon's key takeaway: this, boys and girls, is why we need the Second Amendment. This is why citizens must have the right to keep and bear arms. And this is why it's so important that those arms include weapons that can compete with those that could be used against us by a military led by a general who has gone off the reservation, behind his Commander-in-Chief's back, and conspired with our enemies for political purposes. A general who would go after those whose political views differ from his own and his party bosses'.
The scoffers always point to the brave boots on the ground and tell us we don't need protecting from them, because they're protecting us. And they're right. But we do need protecting from men like Mark Milley, who would leave Americans behind in the hands of the Taliban, or conspire with our greatest enemy behind the back of the Commander-in-Chief. And who views an idiot prancing through the Capitol wearing a Viking helmet as a greater threat to national security than people who fly planes into buildings, because of his partisan beliefs.
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