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• Thursday, April 20, 2006 07:42 PM

  Armchair Generalizing

  It's good to read these letters, which offer second/third/etc. opinions on this complex topic. I'd like to read yet more takes on the consequences of a U.S. attack/invasion of Iran. Would the editors fish around for that?

  That aside, let me posit a thought that flashed though my admittedly geopolitically challenged mind. When I put the news reports together, it leads me to ponder the possibility of...wait for it...a coup. Yes, you heard it here, folks; a genuine U.S. born and bred coup d'etat. Has anyone considered this? I theorize that at this time (2006/04/21) there is simply high-level scuttlebutt, nothing more--though serious enough, if true.

  I know that's a wierd notion; and the U.S. military is nothing if not thoroughly conditioned to act at the behest of the whims of the civil system. But there's a part of me that feels that there must be a breaking point; it's just a question of where that breaking point is, and whether we're streaking toward that horizon with no sign of some governing safeguard intervening to save the day (e.g., a check/balance).

  At any rate, even if Conason's military analysis is off--as suggested in some of these letters--there's still a "canary in the coalmine" value to his concern; something I'm sure many of us share at this point.

  —razajac Read razajac's other letters
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