No Public Comments?

I have a new appreciation for Gen. Mark Milley ’80 after reading the profile in the September 2023 PAW. I particularly liked and agree with his quote to PAW that read: “It’s not my place as a soldier. I never have and never will make public comments about President Trump, President Biden, any former president, current president, or future president.” 

I also looked at the piece cited in the Aug. 8, 2022, New Yorker, and I’m having a bit of trouble squaring the noble sentiment above with allowing his unsent resignation letter to be published there in its entirety. Looks like pretty public criticism to me, although I can understand the impulse.