Joint Chiefs shakedown?

[Henry C.K. Liu]

Pure fantasy.
Don't confuse the American system's immorality with lawlessness.
There is no way the military can inject itself into the political process.
First of all, the President, though Commander in Chief, is a civilian, and
therefore not subject to the military code of justice.  Secondly, even if
Clinton had personally shot one of the Joint Chiefs, there is no basis or
channel for the Joint Chiefs to confront him.  It would be pure
insubordination.
The Joint Chiefs do not appoint the President nor can they remove him.
Hitchen is writing a movie script, totally unrelated to reality.
The American system remians sound and stable.
One of the good things about the American system is civilian control of the
military which for two century has never been challenged.
Any suggestion to the contrary is self delusion.

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Christopher Hitchens has a manuscript of a book on Bill Clinton in with
> Verso. I hear it's relentlessly hostile to Clinton, whom Hitchens wants to
> see impeached. In it, he claims that the Joint Chiefs of Staff paid a visit
> to Bill after the Monica stuff came out, saying that he'd be discharged
> from the military for what he did, and why should he remain as their
> Commander-in-Chief? Cinton's response was a proposed $60 billion boost in
> military spending. Anyone else heard this?
>
> Doug