re: #101 William Lewis

You’re that certain the pilots of those gunships won’t defect? Or they crews of the M1’s? Or the officers they’ll follow over anyone in Washington on either side? All it takes is a fraction to make a real big mess. Especially if one of those people is this generation’s Massa Robert.

No…I’m certain that we would have some defectors. Just as we did with Iraq in both the Bush and Obama administrations. However, most of the professional corps would follow the orders if they were legitimate. The argument now becomes binary…do you believe the R’s in Congress are so unprincipled that they would let an armed rebellion survive? Going birther is one thing, but the will of the electorate, as expressed by the EC and our constitution, being usurped? I despise what R’s have become, but even I have doubts at that junction.