A good thing? No. A necessary thing, maybe, in some very rare circumstances, if the people to be governed accept it.
Anybody who starts thinking a military government would be a good thing for somebody else needs to be hit hard on the head before he has any chance to put that idea into action.
Last edited by davidbfpo; 07-06-2013 at 01:49 PM. Reason: Copied from the thread Can Military Governments be a good thing (for a while)?
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”
H.L. Mencken
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