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While some in the military may put loyalty to the republic above loyalty to the Republicans - the Judge Advocate General's Corps appears to be fighting a particularly fierce rear guard action at the moment - I think for many the tide is already running too strongly the other way. These things always look a lot better going in than coming out.
Like I said at the beginning, it's an incremental process - one of fits and starts, albeit with occasional leaps forward, as in the 2000 election. How long it will take and how it will end up are never clear. There's no master plan - at least, I don't think there is. But while I don't know exactly where the imperial tide is taking the U.S. military, and the United States, I don't think it's going to be any kind of place I would want to go, or produce any kind of regime I would want my children to have to live under.
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