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In reply to the discussion: Anyone See This? What Do You Think? [View all]Bucky
(55,334 posts)7. Scary as fuck
Back during the Cold War years, people often regarded the Turkish military hierarchy as sort of their version of Supreme Court, stepping in when the elected officials got too far off the neoliberal farm.
For an American, that's a pretty disturbing thought it, that the constitutional balance depends on the military stepping in to overrule an elected leader. But now that we have an Ottoman in the White House, I'm finding a little nuance in my fear of military interference. There may well come a time when we want the generals to disobey an order.
I'm kind of creeping myself out even thinking that thought
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