I like Fred Kaplan's suggestion in
Slate:
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It's an odd thought, but a military coup in this country right now would probably have a moderating influence.
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The sad truth is that the Bush administration has made it clear that any general who steps out of line to tell the truth will lose his stars. They made that clear by kicking Gen. Eric Shinseki, the ex-Army chief of staff, to the curb when he dared suggest that hundreds of thousands of troops would be needed in Iraq.
Now we have retired generals who can't take it anymore, who are standing up to speak truth to power while the rest of the officer corps largely agrees while them but are afraid for their jobs.
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It is startling to hear, in private conversations, how widely and deeply the U.S. officer corps despises this secretary of defense. The joke in some Pentagon circles is that if Rumsfeld were meeting with the service chiefs and commanders and a group of terrorists barged into the room and kidnapped him, not a single general would lift a finger to help him.
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The Revolt Against Rumsfeld