Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley made the right decision on Thursday by apologizing for his attendance at President Trump’s walk from the White House to St. John’s Church.

That walk, which required the dispersing of an otherwise peaceful crowd of protesters, involved Trump posing with a Bible for photographs. Whether or not Trump’s action was justified (I believe Trump should have walked to the church early the next morning after protesters had departed), it was overtly political in design and effect. For that reason, Milley should not have been involved in it.