two clicks from revolt? (4+ / 0-)
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The traditional
The traditional mechanism by which the US military influences policy at the grassroots level is via personal contact with loved ones. Active duty can't just stand up and say "this regime sucks!," they have to say it in quieter tones to their loved ones, who in turn stand up and speak out on their behalf, loud & clear and in no uncertain terms.
This editorial is a huge break from that tradition.
It strikes me that this is absolutely extraordinary: publications that are the de-facto voice of active duty, are effectively saying "this far and no further."
It is almost as if we are two steps from military revolt.
The next step would be for officers to resign their commissions.
After that the next step would be outright disobedience of orders. Strictly speaking that's mutiny. And from there, revolt is just a matter of degree rather than kind.
I don't want to believe we're heading all the way down that road.
I want to believe that sensible Republicans today will do something similar to what they did at the end of the Nixon administration: "Mr. President, we've reached the end of the road...." in this case, demanding that Bush fire Rumsfeld and make significant changes in the Iraq policy. And if Bush and his crew dig themselves in and refuse to budge, then the pressure gets racheted up accodingly, perhaps even going so far as impeachment.
it would appear that, with a Democratic House and possibly Senate, and with the revolt of the neocons themselves (see this month's Vanity Fair article), and the retired officers, and now the active duty forces, the entire national consensus is turning against the Administration.
I can't imagine how they could resist a tsunami of that magnitude and have any hope of prevailing.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/3/235226/902 YOWSA!!!!!!!!
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