Obama Risks a Domestic Military Intervention
Full Text Of Newsmax Column Suggesting Military Coup Against Obama
Here is the full text of John L. Perry’s column on Newsmax which suggests that a
military coup to "resolve the Obama problem" is becoming more possible and is not
"unrealistic." Perry also writes that a coup, while not
"ideal," may be preferable to "Obama’s radical ideal" — and would "restore and defend
the Constitution." Newsmax has since
removed the column from its website.
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.