When you have to turn to the men in uniform to be the ones warning against abuse of military power, things have reached a pretty sorry state in the republic:
U.S. generals call for Democratic takeover | Salon News
Note that the comment above should not be read as a slight against the military, it's not. It's just that the standard order of things is for the military to be champing at the bit to go into action and the civilian command structure restraining them, and when that is flipped upside down, Mr. Secretary Rumsfeld, then you are counting on the uniforms to be your last line of restraint as well as your last line of defense, and that's a terrible position to put anyone in. It's akin to asking Bernard Hopkins to be the referee and the fight doctor at his own next bout.
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