Scroll down past News & Notes for a quick-take debate on the controversy surrounding Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding his portrayal in the book Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. 

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Also in this column …

•Right-column pundit Bryan Williams, “New Competition May Do Us Some Good,” on the growing Cold War with China.

•Williams again, on the California gubernatorial recall and the future of Trump’s GOP.

•David Iwinski on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate.

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Our Right Columnists on Whether Milley Should Resign:

Resign or be Court-Martialed

It is crystal clear that for reasons of decency, competence and military law, that Gen. Mark Milley should immediately resign, if not be court-martialed and tried for treason. If one should disagree with the commander in chief, there are methods to express that concern and he certainly had every opportunity to simply resign in protest and make his thoughts known. Instead, he retained his position and very cynically and cowardly went behind the back of the President Trump outside the chain of command. He should resign in disgrace. –David Iwinski

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Intercepting the Nuclear Football from a 10-Year-Old?

“I don’t want to be your friend anymore if you don’t do this.”

(Trump’s words to his vice president, Mike Pence, on blocking the official Electoral College count in Congress, January 6, according to Peril.)

Is that the most powerful person in the world?

Or you, about age 10?

That should scare the stuff right out of you.

Remember: the slang for the container of the nuclear codes is “the football.”

And you know how petulant children deal with those. —Stephen Macaulay

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Trust Milley

Gen. Mark Milley told the Senate Armed Services Committee that his actions during the final days of the Trump administration was within the scope of his official duties. There has been much criticism about how Milley allegedly grabbed control as in described in the book, Peril, but I don’t take him to be a liar, as those in uniform tend to take being under oath seriously. Let's not get all bent out of shape from Bob Woodward's reporting -- he's been proven to obfuscate and inveigle in the past. 

--Bryan Williams