Subj : Re: BSG
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Tue Sep 27 2005 14:55:10

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Nick wrote:
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>> 
>>> The military has got a long history of murder, torture and rape of 
>>> civilians who have the unfortunate habit of either speaking up for
>>> a truly democratic state, are a member of the minority Kurdish
>>> ethnic group or just piss them off by there very existence.
>>> http://www.khrp.org/ http://www.mtcp.co.uk/campaigns.php?id=7
>>> You'll like the Mark Thomas guy, think Moore but funnier and more 
>>> politically astute.
>>> Of course the civilian goverment is also culpable but you have to 
>>> remember that there were military coups in 60,71,80 and heavy
>>> military involvement in the 97 coup, but that one was ok because it
>>> got rid of the Islamic government. Of course this doesn't even
>>> begin to touch on Cyprus and the invasion by Turkish forces in 74.
>>> Hardly the secular liberal government model that you want to follow
>>> now is it?
>> 
>> I would think that any military that acts on its own accord and is
>> not under the control of a civilian government is only one power
>> hungry guy away from siezing total control.
>  
> However there has to be a level at which the military must be allowed
> to act autonomously. When politics gets mixed up in a military
> decision it never ends well. For example Churchill's sinking of the
> French fleet, while militarily the correct course to follow he has
> still not been forgiven for his actions by the French, WOCAB.


Does anyone care?  I mean, what are they gonna do, surrender to you?

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