https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1557797778327326720?s=20&t=OY2nlwd3nFptq5CJmqv_UQ
Part of Darren’s long article
The letter is littered with traces of borderline illiteracy. Where to begin?
Why does Milley write out “Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” in full, twice in the span of three sentences?
Why does Milley word his first allegation in the past tense — “you were doing great and irreparable harm”?
Why does Milley start in numbering his grievances at “Second” without ever mentioning what his “First” problem is?
Just how much fighting did Milley’s mom do in World War II?
What an ungrammatical mess: “It’s obvious to me that you don’t hold those values dear and the cause that I serve”
If “all men and women are created equal,” why is “Black” capitalized but not “white”?
Seriously, what on Earth is going on in the last paragraph?
Just go over Milley’s unsent letter a few more times and be honest with yourself: If you were a high school English teacher grading this as an assignment, could you give it an A, or even a B+? And remember, this is a letter that Milley considered sending to the President of the United States. According to the New Yorker, that lump of textual goo was his favorite version among multiple drafts, which he spent several days working on.
In short, General Milley isn’t merely a mediocrity. He is a moron, a mental midget who engages with the world on the level of a teenager who has watched too many Aaron Sorkin TV shows. And embarrassingly (though appropriately) enough, Milley has two Ivy League degrees.
Milley is not some outlier exception. He is instead one of the best examples of a type that infests the senior levels of not just the military, but intelligence, law enforcement, foreign policy, and more. This type often thinks that it has no ideology at all; sometimes they even think they are conservative. But when faced with the slightest pressure at all, the only thing they actually believe is the nonsense in Milley’s letter — a moral vision derived from grade school history class and vague clichés they’ve heard incanted at one ceremony after another….
Even as the armed forces have embraced critical race theory and transgenderism, many American patriots have kept fetishizing the military because they view it as innately “conservative.” Milley’s letter, and every other humiliating detail of Monday’s article, shows that we must abandon this assumption. America’s top generals don’t just parrot contemporary wokeness. They are indistinguishable from the hysterical idiots who populate sites like Twitter and Reddit. The thought that they might be tasked with fighting and winning an actual war isn’t just amusing, it is terrifying.
https://www.revolver.news/2022/08/general-mark-milley-anti-trump-resignation-stunt-blew-up-in-his-face/