cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/84306
From United States & Canada - South China Morning Post via this RSS feed
“It’s been an honour to serve our nation, the American people and support and defend the Constitution for over 37 years,” he said.
My first thought before reading the article was; Oh, he has to step down due to not vetting targets enough and sinking ships he shouldn’t have.
After reading the article; Oh, he has to step down because he’s probably not sinking enough ships.
He’s smart enough to know what the future holds for him under the Miller>Trump>Rubio>Hegseth chain of command. Get out now or then
It is nice to see people stand up for what is morally right and step down in the face of this fascist leader. The only thing that worries me is that the people left are perfectly OK with doing the most horrendous things to its own people and people outside the country for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
On social media, Holsey said he would retire on December 12, but did not give a reason.
“I don’t want my name on this shit.” Probably being it
I mean, that ship has sailed.
… more like … “I don’t want my name on the shit that’s coming next”
It would have, if he hadn’t of fucking bombed it…
To my dying day I’ll never understand this - surely he (and all of the others resigning in protest) could do more good staying and gumming up the works as opposed to leaving and having his place filled with a yes-man.
“Staying and gumming up the works” could literally be interpreted as treason. Which is probably one of, if not the, most severe crime a citizen can commit.
The correct thing to do is make your stance crystal clear, let it be known for the record, and if that forces you into retirement, then at least there will be articles about it, like this one. And that shapes public opinion.
I think sabotage is best done in labor positions, but Oscar Schindler showed it can be done from management positions as well. I remember much advice from the simple sabotage field manual that would be useful in the position he is leaving.
He may not have had much of a choice. It looks like they were about to fire him for not being a yes-man.
Admirals, while extremely high up, aren’t the top of the food chain. He was being commanded to do bad stuff. His choices were to A) follow orders, B) not follow orders and be fired with a dishonorable discharge and all of his benefits for his family removed, C) follow orders but in a bad way that still kills innocent civilians while also slowly makes things slightly worse for his boss, D) retire honorably.
Military follow orders, if legal. Otherwise it doesn’t work.
To add to this. If you don’t follow an order the onus is on you to prove that it is illegal not on them to prove that it is legal.
So, escalation it is, then. I’m guessing this guy was the voice of relative calm and had pushed back on too many times.
