Haven't looked it up yet, but I will.

Out of nowhere!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/15/milley-revelation-leaves-us-with-five-questions/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F34b152b%2F614368f79d2fda9d41cf2f25%2F5be88d8dade4e2323ef2d753%2F17%2F72%2F614368f79d2fda9d41cf2f25


We already knew the disgraced former president was suffering from the delusion that he won the 2020 election. We knew he tried to twist arms to overthrow the election. And we knew he refused for hours to call off the insurrectionists whom he inspired to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6. What we did not know is how irresponsible so many other Republicans were and continue to be in tolerating and enabling him.

The Post reports: “Twice in the final months of the Trump administration . . . Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, that the United States would not strike, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political reporter Robert Costa.”

Woodward and Costa also reveal that Milley took special care to instruct the chain of command not to carry out an order for a nuclear strike in the waning days of the Trump administration. They also relay a candid conversation in which Milley and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) agreed that the commander in chief was unstable. All of this leaves us with five questions:

First, what guarantees must be put in place to prevent an unstable president from setting off a nuclear war? Milley is right that, as chairman of the joint chiefs, he is to be included in a decision to authorize a nuclear strike. Beyond that, Tom Nichols, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, explains, “No one can countermand [a nuclear strike order from the president]. But the commander of STRATCOM could say ‘this is an illegal order and I am not bound to follow it.’” Nichols adds, “[The president] can then start relieving people until he gets to someone who will follow the order.” (This view was affirmed in a critical Senate hearing in 2017.) Plainly, an order to authorize a nuclear strike without provocation would violate the laws of war, which among other things require proportionality.

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Summer Sunset



This is living.


Sun in Splendour


Lilypads


Erie Angler


Summer time and the livin' is joyous



Summer Honey



Old Wood, New Wood


Mild the mist upon the branch



Oak Leaf Hydrangea in June

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Summer Flight


The Lonely Surfer


August evening at the lake


Sailing on a Summer Breeze



Summertime bougainvillea



Storm rolling in on Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina



Garden Passion



Hot Summer Daze


Frog on Lilypad


A Fawn's First Summer

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Urban Summer Garden (Kinda)


Late Summer Day


Butterflies and Flowers


Our paint mare Kate, practicing her "step-overs".



A Beautiful Day to do some Fishin'-- E. 9th St. Pier, Cleveland, Ohio


Visitor


Milkweed



Juvenile osprey, ready to fly!


Summer Storm

Therefore, I am now opening up the Submission Thread for a second entry for those folks who have already entered one.

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