[Brian Swartz]

It has nothing to do with what he's said or what he plans to do. It's about serving the system, the institution, the office. There is no president imaginable - I mean that literally - for whom serving would mean supporting that person, personally or in terms of policy, inherently. If it did, government could not function.

When a military action is ordered, the question isn't 'does the order come from someone whose politics I agree with or who I think is worthy of his job'. The question is 'do I have valid orders from my chain of command, which begins with the commander-in-chief as selected by the constitutional process'.