Reply #13: So you want the military to decide what is and isn't Democratic? [View All]

[Tom Rinaldo]

What if they get it wrong one time? Once a tradition of civilian control over the military is broken, it's broken for a century. The military knows it's place, and it's place is apolitical.

We don't want the military, the people with all the tanks planes and big guns, to be the ones deciding who is and who isn't the domestic enemy, period. Talk about slippery slopes! The Right is certain that the Clintons are the Domestic enemy, remember? Not to mention what would happen someday if there ever were a Kucinich or Boxer Presidency. It would have to be something really really obvious, like a President canceling National Elections, for the military to clearly depose civilian leadership in order to uphold the Constitution.

This is a fight civilians have to wage.