Editorial: Was it wrong for the top general to thwart a clearly unhinged president?
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
America’s top military commander justifiably feared for the sanity of his boss in the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency and took steps to circumvent Trump’s authority in case he attempted an unprovoked nuclear strike or other belligerent action. The Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Gen. Mark Milley, clearly sidestepped all notions of civilian control over the military and, if reports are confirmed, that could cost him his job. But the nation and world owe him a debt of gratitude for intervening to contain a clearly unhinged chief executive. Revelations in a new book by journalists Bob Woo…
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