Obama Risks a Domestic Military Intervention

Obama Risks a Domestic Military Intervention

By: John L. Perry

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.

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:

# 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."

# Top military officers can see the Constitution they are sworn to defend
being
trampled as American institutions and enterprises are nationalized.

# 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.

# They can see that the economy -- ravaged by deficits, taxes,
unemployment, and
impending inflation -- is financially reliant on foreign lender governments.

# 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.

# 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.

# They can see the horror of major warfare erupting simultaneously in two,
and
possibly three, far-flung theaters before America can react in time.

# They can see the nation's safety and their own military establishments
and honor
placed in jeopardy as never before.

So, if you are one of those observant military professionals, what do you
do?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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."

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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