- Here is the full text of John L. Perry's column on Newsmax which
suggests that a military coup to "resolve the Obama problem"
is becoming more possible and is not "unrealistic." Perry also
writes that a coup, while not "ideal," may be preferable to "Obama's radical
ideal" -- and would "restore and defend the Constitution." Newsmax has
since removed the column from its website.
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- Obama Risks a Domestic Military Intervention
- By John L. Perry
- Via TalkingPointsMemo.com
- 8-19-10
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- There is a remote, although gaining, possibility
America's military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the "Obama problem."
Don't dismiss it as unrealistic.
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- America isn't the Third World. If a military coup
does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn't
mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view
the following through military eyes:
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- # Officers swear to "support and defend
the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and
domestic." Unlike enlisted personnel, they do not swear to "obey
the orders of the president of the United States."
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- # Top military officers can see the Constitution they
are sworn to defend being trampled as American institutions and enterprises
are nationalized.
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- # They can see that Americans are increasingly alarmed
that this nation, under President Barack Obama, may not even
be recognizable as America by the 2012 election, in which he will surely
seek continuation in office.
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- # They can see that the economy -- ravaged
by deficits, taxes, unemployment, and impending inflation -- is financially
reliant on foreign lender governments.
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- # They can see this president waging undeclared
war on the intelligence community, without whose rigorous and independent
functions the armed services are rendered blind in an ever-more hostile
world overseas and at home.
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- # They can see the dismantling of defenses
against missiles targeted at this nation by avowed enemies, even as America's
troop strength is allowed to sag.
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- # They can see the horror of major warfare
erupting simultaneously in two, and possibly three, far-flung theaters
before America can react in time.
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- # They can see the nation's safety and their
own military establishments and honor placed in jeopardy as never before.
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- So, if you are one of those observant military professionals,
what do you do?
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- Wait until this president bungles into losing the war
in Afghanistan, and Pakistan's arsenal of nuclear bombs falls into the
hands of militant Islam?
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- Wait until Israel is forced to launch air strikes on
Iran's nuclear-bomb plants, and the Middle East explodes, destabilizing
or subjugating the Free World?
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- What happens if the generals Obama sent to
win the Afghan war are told by this president (who now says, "I'm
not interested in victory") that they will be denied troops they must
have to win? Do they follow orders they cannot carry out, consistent with
their oath of duty? Do they resign en masse?
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- Or do they soldier on, hoping the 2010 congressional
elections will reverse the situation? Do they dare gamble the national
survival on such political whims?
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- Anyone who imagines that those thoughts are not weighing
heavily on the intellect and conscience of America's military leadership
is lost in a fool's fog.
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- Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers
sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out
the national equivalent of a "family intervention," with some
form of limited, shared responsibility?
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- Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution
through an interim administration that would do the serious business of
governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders
would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having
bonded with his twin teleprompters, the president would be detailed
for ceremonial speech-making.
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- Military intervention is what Obama's exponentially
accelerating agenda for "fundamental change" toward a Marxist
state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama's radical ideal is
not acceptable or reversible.
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- Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent
solution to the Obama problem. Just don't shrug and say, "We
can always worry about that later."
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- In the 2008 election, that was the wistful, self-indulgent,
indifferent reliance on abnegation of personal responsibility that has
sunk the nation into this morass.
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- http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/09/full_text_of_
newsmax_column_suggesting_military_co.php
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