General Milley: Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper

 Please go read Andrea Widberg's post at the American Thinker entitled The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is Straight Out of Dr. Stranglove. Widberg here reveals her age, because the movie, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was released in 1964. I saw it at the movie theater at the time. It was one of those movies that made one laugh because the only other thing you could do was pray and cry. Pray, of course, that somehow our leaders weren't crazy enough to incinerate us all.

But now it appears that life is imitating art:

In Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 black comedy, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the engine for the plot is Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, a United States Air Force general, who goes completely off his rocker and launches a nuclear weapon at the Soviet Union. We may have our own, real-life General Ripper in the form of General Mark Milley, a product of the Ivy League and now Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. However, unlike General Ripper, who had the Russkies in his sights, General Milley is pretty sure that you are the enemy.

Milley, 63, is not a graduate of America’s military academies. Instead, he’s an Ivy League product, having attended Princeton and Columbia. Apparently, at least as to Milley, the rot had already started to set in when he attended those institutions.

For many of us, Milley entered our consciousness on June 23, when he insisted that West Pointers should study Critical Race Theory and that he, especially, wanted to understand “White rage.” At that moment, when he openly embraced CRT, complete with its claims about White Supremacy, systemic racism, and White privilege, Milley imposed upon himself an obligation immediately to resign from his position and to insist that someone Black – anyone Black – take his place. Until Milley walks away from his White privileged position, he’s just a very dangerous, virtue-signaling windbag.

Milley insists that we should teach Critical Race Theory to prospective officers at the military academies to broaden their perspectives. Does he also recommend teaching the "Communist Manifesto"? How about the Koran? Or the Bible? What other controversial theories does he think it appropriate to teach our future officers? And where does he think these thing fit in with leadership, tactics, logistics and strategy in war fighting? More important, or less?

Besides his odd notions of how to educate our officer class, the other objectionable thing about him is his beliefs about conservatives.  Conservatives believe in the Constitution, which means that we would not rise up in support of a President who did not abide by the same document.  We looked for the courts and the Congress to do their job.  That we have been disappointed does not change the fact that we would not stage an insurrection, and indeed, January 6 was not an insurrection.  No one was armed, and indeed, the only one killed that day was the unarmed  Ashli Babbet by a Capitol Policeman.  Where are the BLM protestors burning down cities over Ashli?  And don't the American citizens who paid for the Capitol have every right to be there?

Milley, unfortunately appears to be another true believer in the communist cause.  We should view such "leaders" with a jaundiced eye.