President-elect Donald Trump’s alleged plans to court-martial the military brass responsible for the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle has some losing their minds.

The first one to lose his mind was retired former Biden-Harris Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley. Last month The Guardian reported that he feared Trump would recall him so that he could be court-martialed.

His proof? The fact that Trump’s former campaign manager Steve Bannon has been calling for him to be court-martialed.

Steve Bannon: “My Strongest Recommendation To The President Is On Day 1 Recall General Milley To Active Duty And Make Him Face A Court-Martial.” @realErikDPrince pic.twitter.com/6EBNGkl5au

— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) November 12, 2024

“He is the most dangerous person ever,” Milley told journalist Bob Woodward about Trump, as reported by The Guardian. “I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country. A fascist to the core.”

Yeah, OK…

Flash forward to this past Monday, when former Army general turned leftist commentator Barry McCaffrey went even further, tweeting that Trump’s idea would “be a disaster for military morale and a political bomb for him.”

Look:

Trump plans to recall retired officers to active duty to court martial them for Afghan withdrawal will be a disaster for military morale and a political bomb for him. The Uniform Code of Military Justice is a codified Congressional statute and operates under Federal law…. not…

— Barry R McCaffrey (@mccaffreyr3) November 18, 2024

The tweet prompted a flurry of criticism from those rightly convinced that holding people accountable for the horrendous way the Afghanistan withdrawal was handled would in fact be a good idea.

“Accountability for the Afghanistan withdrawal isn’t just about assigning blame—it’s about restoring integrity and trust in military leadership,” one critic tweeted.

“The chaotic withdrawal resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. service members, the abandonment of billions of dollars in equipment, and the betrayal of Afghan allies. To many, this was not merely a logistical failure but a dereliction of duty at the highest levels,” the critic added.

See more responses below:

Military morale is terrible right now because incompetent generals are never held accountable.

— Dale Stark (@DaleStarkA10) November 19, 2024

You may have been a good man back in the day, but if you’re shilling for the deep state you’ve lost your way. These are corrupted people that must face consequences for their crimes.

— Make The Rubble Bounce (@reesehavoc) November 19, 2024

Retirement does not provide a safe space for those who exercised poor judgment and harmed our troops, as well as the hundreds of Afghans troops that helped during the years of occupation…

— Salty Tyer / Join the NRA (@EndLiberalism) November 19, 2024

Wait, so, as a retired general, you don’t think people should be held responsible for their actions? Funny, when I was a soldier, people actually expected those in the wrong to be held accountable.

— Jo the Banlaoch. (@cailleach_feasa) November 19, 2024

Stalinist show trials? Like they put Trump through, along with various supporters for the past 6 years? This would actually be a boost for morale, not a disaster. It will set up the proper discipline and accountability that has been lacking in the military for awhile.

— John M. Kanaley (@Kanaley) November 19, 2024

Whether or not Trump even plans to really go through with all this remains to be seen.

An unnamed source in Trump’s campaign told The Telegraph that it was just an idea that’d been bandied about by some unnamed individuals who were looking for a spot in the Trump administration.

Trump’s team has also disputed reports that Matt Flynn, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for counter-narcotics and global threats, has been tapped to oversee the operation.

“No one has sought out Mr. Flynn’s views on this hypothetical legal scenario,” Trump attorney Mark Zaid reportedly said.

All this comes as Trump is DEFINITELY considering a military purge. In fact, Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth called for exactly this in his 2024 book, “The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free.”

“The next president of the United States needs to radically overhaul Pentagon senior leadership to make us ready to defend our nation and defeat our enemies,” he wrote in the book. “Lots of people need to be fired.”

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