Commentary
According to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, the January 6th demonstration was an attempt to overthrow the Constitution. Lt. General and former National Security Advisor H.L. McMaster declared that the Department of Defense’s Afghanistan withdrawal debacle resulted from the American public’s “disinterest and defeatism.”
The language of politicians, fraught with half truths, omissions, and exaggerations and parsed for plausible deniability, is the lingua franca of an expanding number of generals and admirals.
Why would members of the military, whose members represent generations of men and women whose reputations are based on honesty, trust, and integrity, emulate members of Congress, whom less than 10 percent of Americans rate low or very low in these character traits?…