The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is straight out of Dr. Strangelove

July 16, 2021   By Andrea Widburg

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.

But that’s not all Milley is. It’s unclear why President Trump, in 2018, nominated Milley to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was probably yet another bad piece of advice that Trump, who was wise to how the real world works but utterly naïve about Washington, received from those “in the know” who were trying to destroy him. As it turned out, Milley was at the top of the list of those who despised Trump and all 75-80 million of his supporters, and desperately wanted to see them destroyed.

We know this thanks to a new book, not from The Daily Wire or Breitbart but from a sympathetic outlet: Two Washington Post reporters, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker. What you’re about to read, which comes from the leftist, anti-American anti-Trump AFP, is meant to be complimentary about Milley:...........To Read More....