Twitter fumes as Woodward book suggests Gen. Milley took “secret action”

Twitter users are fuming after Bob Woodward’s latest piece suggests Gen. Milley took “secret action” against President Trump.

The legendary journalist’s latest work has sent shockwaves not only through the political landscape but the entire World.

“Peril,” a new book by Woodward and Washington Post reporter Robert Costa reveals the happenings of the final days of the Trump Administration.

The book suggests that after the Jan. 6 riots, a worried General Milley was convinced that the President of the United States had “gone rogue.”

Fearing the President would launch an attack on China, Gen. Milley took secret action alone to limit the President’s control over military orders.

After the Jan. 6 riots, Milley feared that President Trump would launch nuclear strikes on China and in consequence of his “fears” called a secret meeting in his Pentagon office on January 08.

In the meeting, the process for military action was reviewed and Milley instructed senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center to not take orders from anyone unless he was involved.

In the alleged quotes from the bombshell book, Milley walked around the room and looked the other officials in the eye and asked them if they understand.

According to the authors, Milley considered it an oath.

Milley had already had phone calls with his Chinese counterpart and assured him that the US will not attack China as the latter was on high alert.

Afterwards, in a phone call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who called the President “crazy”, Gen. Milley said he agreed with “everything [she] has said,” and the United States nuclear weapons were safe.

Milley then went on to instruct his service chiefs (director of the NSA and then-CIA director) to keep an eye on everything all the time.

Since the news broke, social media has been ablaze with criticism directed at Gen. Milley.

Since nothing of what Milley expected had happened, his “premeditated” actions might have consequences, and have also raised serious questions of who really is in charge.

Is the POTUS the Commander in Chief or the General? And whether the Speaker, or political differences can successfully influence the generals to go against the President of the United States?

All sorts of questions are being asked online and people have the right to be worried, but they should also unite and avoid targeting our top generals as that would only bolster our enemies.

Of course, the reactions online would have been a lot different had Trump done any of the sort Milley was “worried” about.

The criticism would have turned into support, but as that never happened, then what exactly was Gen. Milley achieving by allegedly talking to his Chinese counterpart and ensuring him that China “would be alerted ahead of time” in case the US attacked.

“General Li, you and I have known each other now for five years. If we are going to attack, I am going to call you ahead of time,” Milley allegedly said, as reported in the book, “Peril.”

According to the book, the POTUS was never told about the alleged phone calls because Milley believed his mental state had declined.

This makes us question who to support in the future if America ever goes to war?

Do we stand by our President regardless of him running as a Democrat or Republican, etc., or do we listen to all the members of Congress playing their cards in the shadows to deem what is fit for the country and if the President’s political ideologies make him unfit?

Our Constitution clearly separates the powers of the three branches and enforces a system of checks and balances, and Congress must ensure the lawmakers act inline with what the framers had ideally envisioned.

The President is our Commander in Chief and if for even an instance is somehow unfit to lead then who takes charge, how quickly is the baton passed, and how transparently would the process be accomplished?

The VP and then the House Speaker of course would take charge but what would happen when the President declares himself fit and it’s just some aspects of his thinking or political ideology the other branches are not fond of?

Wouldn’t this only weaken our system? We need to ensure that things like impeachment aren’t just used as tools but are used only for gross and evident “impeachable” offences.

These are serious questions and our lawmakers need to address them and come up with measures that heal these open wounds.

Unfortunately, the military is getting politicized by the actions of those in charge.

Let’s suppose the President is suddenly unfit for even a split-second, and the enemy suddenly attacks. Who’s in charge?

During that split-second, would we even have time to let all branches know of the new Commander in Chief and to not take orders from the previous one?

The opposite of this presumed event was what Gen. Milley and the majority of the Democrats were worried about.

They thought or rather allegedly believed President Trump would use “war” as a tool to stay in power even after losing the election.

It is quite possible for a President to do that but it didn’t happen. So the alleged actions of Gen. Milley were then wholly based on his “fears,” in other words assumptions or theories.

He acted preemptively, thinking the President was unfit and would initiate a war to stay in power. But since nothing of that sort ever happened, wouldn’t his actions be questioned today for being wholly based on events that never transpired?

We could then assume or theorize anything and our decisions would either be a hit or miss, and for our top military official(s) to base their judgements on mere theories is something that has every American worried.

These are some of the effects of politicization.

Back when President Trump was in office, the polarization was sky-high, theories were floating throughout the Capitol all while stoking the worst fears, creating an environment which led our top official(s) to assume the worst and allegedly act preemptively to stop something that didn’t exist and never happened.

Politicization of such a fragile subject would lead to confusion and even a second’s confusion could land attacks on America before we can even decide of defending ourselves.

Thousands are criticizing the actions of Gen. Milley. But calling for his removal would only strengthen our enemies.

The leaders of the social fabric need to sit together and come up with a bipartisan solution that ascertains that the military, the intelligence, etc., are kept out of politics so that they keep the same standards, unity and might America has always been known for.