(09-15-2021, 09:04 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: So, my question would be, is there any scenario you can see where morality overrides duty as a military officer to follow the chain of command? 

Obviously, the answer is yes, because I know that if you guys were in the military and the President told you to go out and round up Jews and kill them, you would not obey that.  But would that be treason?  Yes, that is an extreme example, but it did happen in Germany. 

On the other hand, you have the Seven Days in May scenario, where Chairman of the Joint Chiefs tried to carry out a military coup based on his own assumptions of what was good for the people of the United States and the rest of the world. 

So there are cases where your duty as a moral human being overrides your duty as a military officer.  The question is, where do we draw the line?  In some cases, morality demands that you commit treason.  Right?  So how does one make that decision?  This is not a simple question, no matter how much you guys want it to be.

I wouldn't mind seeing Milley put on trial over this, as long as the trial is public and televised.  It would be the most interesting trial in years.  Because it would delve into questions of morality vs duty, not to mention what was going on in the White House at the time.

There are Constitutional and civilian provisions for dealing with an unstable President and Milly subverted those provisions in favor of collaboration with a foreign adversary. This was not a "finger on the button" scenario in any sense of the phrase and Milly's actions in this circumstance, the only one that bears consideration at the moment, were treasonous.

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