{"id":128933,"date":"2022-08-09T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=128933"},"modified":"2022-08-08T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T17:09:39","slug":"milley-resignation-letter-cited-in-upcoming-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=128933","title":{"rendered":"Milley resignation letter cited in upcoming book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117881 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/milley-tzu-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/milley-tzu-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/milley-tzu.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/milley-tzu-500x282.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seems GEN. Milley wanted to stand by his principles &#8211; and didn&#8217;t. In an upcoming book\u00a0 by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, &#8220;<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Divider-Trump-White-House-2017-2021\/dp\/038554653X\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Divider: Trump in the White House\" data-rapid_p=\"36\" data-v9y=\"1\">The Divider: Trump in the White House<\/a>&#8221; Milley drafted a fiery resignation letter after the infamous Lafayette Square photo-op, when troops cleared the square of protesters so Trump could have his picture taken there. But rather than fall on his sword, he decided to resist Trump &#8216;from within&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The events of the last couple weeks have caused me to do deep soul-searching, and I can no longer faithfully support and execute your orders as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,&#8221; Milley wrote in the draft letter obtained by Glasser and Baker.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I believe that you have made a concerted effort over time to politicize the United States military,&#8221; he continued.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/08\/08\/mark-milley-trump-draft-resignation-letter\">Axios<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man who has worked tirelessly to inflict the woke progressives&#8217; agenda on the US military complains that someone was trying to politicize the military? Pot, meet kettle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;F*** that s***,&#8221; Milley told his staff, according to The New Yorker. &#8220;I&#8217;ll just fight him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/08\/politics\/mark-milley-resignation-letter-lafayette-square\/index.html\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then there is his sense of history.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re all Americans. That under these colors of red, white, and blue \u2014 the colors that my parents fought for in World War I \u2014 means something around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/milley-resignation-letter-to-trump-lafayette-square-154956873.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall\">Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His father was a Corpsman who seems to have been in every major battle in the Pacific, his mother was a WAVE. You would think he would know which war was which.<\/p>\n<p>Neither a Trump nor Milley fan &#8211; but if you can&#8217;t support your boss after swearing to do so, you really need to go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems GEN. Milley wanted to stand by his principles &#8211; and didn&#8217;t. In an upcoming book\u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"Milley resignation letter cited in upcoming book\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=128933\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Milley resignation letter cited in upcoming book<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,237,447,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-big-pentagon","category-dick-stepping","category-general-whackos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}