Gen. Milley, on his way out the door, was recently honored by France for “defending French values”. That seems appropriate as Milley is a coward. Maybe that’s not completely fair because most career upper-level feds act like this. They pander to whoever is in power at any given time.
When the Dems were in the ascendancy, Milley quickly figured out the right way to jump and postured on BLM and white rage. Now that the Republicans have been rising, the careerist brass will pivot on drag shows.
Gen. Mark Milley, the nation’s highest ranking military officer, defended the Pentagon’s decision to cancel a drag show on a U.S. Air Force base, calling it the “absolute right thing to do” in an interview Monday with CNN.
Milley said he backed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s cancellation of a drag show that was scheduled for last week at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, saying they both shared concerns about the event taking place on a military installation.
“I think it is the absolute right thing to do,” he told CNN’s Oren Liebermann in Normandy, France, ahead of the 79th anniversary of D-Day.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff also said drag shows “were never part of DOD policy to begin with and they’re certainly not funded by federal funds.”
If the Democrats held the House, the drag shows would be going forward. Since they don’t, there’s an attempt to appease some Republicans on one minor issue even as military wokeness overall rolls forward.
The trouble with Milley isn’t that he’s woke. To be woke, he’d have to believe in something. The trouble is that he, like most of the upper ranks, are political generals, they have no interest in fighting wars, they navigate the D.C. cocktail party circuit, they play generals on television, but they don’t actually do anything.
Gen. Milley is a shallow political general who plays a part, that of a tough commander with an interest in history and a vision for adapting the military to meet modern challenges, but it’s a role. He pivoted on BLM, now he’ll pivot on drag shows, because identity politics is just more politics to him.