You are exactly right, Mel. I have never understood why senior people did not resign more. Especially with someone like Trump in control. I have been very disappointed with the senior general officer corps in our military. I can cite two examples that I personally was involved in to support this. First ambassador Bremmer, in spite of all his shortcomings, used the threat of resignation multiple times in Baghdad during the 2003 to get the Pentagon, specifically paul Wolfowitz , to back off of specific directives. On the other hand, we had general officers that were afraid to use the threat of resignation. General Sanchez was the first commanding general in Baghdad. He refused to threaten resignation, even though he consistently felt like he needed another 20 to 30,000 troops to control Baghdad. I sat in a few meetings with him when the question was never asked by the other generals only us civilians would ask the question. The answer was always that Rumsfeld felt like we had plenty of soldiers in Iraq. Sanchez should’ve threatened resignation at that point. I was advised later on that the reasoning was that if a general resigns then he loses access to lucrative retirement jobs in the defense sector, costing him millions of dollars. My respect for general officers only decreased as I learned more and more about specific instances.