Saturday, October 24, 2009

Thinking The Unthinkable: An American Coup D'Eatat -- An Essay


American Coup D'etat: Military Thinkers Discuss The Unthinkable -- Harper's Magazine

Eternal vigilance being the price of liberty, Americans—who spent decades war-gaming a Soviet invasion and have taken more recently to daydreaming about “ticking bomb” scenarios—should cast at least an occasional thought toward the only truly existential threat that American democracy might face today. We now live in a unipolar world, after all, in which conquest of the United States by an outside power is nearly inconceivable. Even the best-equipped terrorists, for their part, could dispatch at most a city or two; and armed revolution is a futile prospect, so fearsomely is our homeland secured by police and military forces. To subdue America entirely, the only route remaining would be to seize the machinery of state itself, to steer it toward malign ends—to carry out, that is, a coup d'état.

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My Comment: For what it is worth .... in today's world an American coup d'etat planned and executed from the American military is impossible .... but I guess these pundit have nothing better to do with their spare time. In any case .... the conversation is interesting .... so enjoy.

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