No and you know the correct response. Your statement makes no sense and is a complete deflection.Malibu2 said:Hypothetical: President Biden on his last week in office says to immediately launch nukes over Moscow, Tehran, Beijing, and Pyongyang. You want the military to say "yes sir, men, you have your orders, go nuke the *******s!" I would hope in that hypothetical a bit more pause and sobriety, and obfuscation or insubordination and mutiny before executing the order.Ellis Wyatt said:"Justifiable" in your mind is irrelevant. Subordinates follow orders. That is their job. Period.Casey TableTennis said:
I readily recognize I at a minimum have an unpopular take, maybe even a bad take on this. If the parties were reversed, I would think this action would have the appearance to me of being somewhat more justifiable. Which is giving me the pause.
But he played the dangerous game here. And if tried and found guilty of treason, I fully support the highest level of punishment.
The difference is command staff refusing an illegal order and resigning. In this case a commanding Gen. illegally contacted a foreign military adversary without the knowledge of his superior nor the President. In a conspiracy with the speaker of the house revealing operational plans.
Edmund Burke