Robert Naiman wrote: > I'm willing to bet anyone $10,000 that such a coup will not occur. > Whoever supported such a coup, both within Greece and within Europe, > would be taking a huge political risk. The coup plot could be > uncovered; the coup could fail; it could succeed and then fail, as in > Venezuela in 2001. A coup needs supporters, it needs people to > acquiesce, and it needs to be able to crush its opponents.
I don't take bets (and it's always bad policy to make bets you can't afford to lose). But we shouldn't assume that coups are always unpopular. Imagine what Greeks think of "politicians" and even "democracy" at this point: in this mind-set, could the military be worse? If a coup is _anti_austerity, it might work, especially if the state tactics applied to anti-austerity forces were only marginally more heavy-handed. A coup of that sort would also give an excuse for the EMU to expel Greece. By the way, there's a good chance that I will be quoted on Marketplace News this morning. Maybe misquoted... -- Jim Devine / "When truth is nothing but the truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth." -- Aldous Huxley _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
