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To: LindyBill who wrote (38411)	8/18/2002 12:10:26 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

One of the genuinely interesting aspects of the present moment is this debate about civilian control of the military. I've assumed that it was a given because civilians are elected and are less likely to take the country to war; members of the military are not elected and are more likely to take the country to war. Guess what. One element in that symmetry just shifted sides. The military is now less likely than the civilians to take the country to war. But the good thing about it is the military appears to be quite clear that it is a civilian debate that settles the issue. So their appeal is to civilians, just other civilians. At least the appeal by those willing to leak enough to appeal. Who was it, was it Richard Reeves, who argues that leaking is one form of our public debate, particularly when the sitting administration is so obsessive about secrecy, so obsessive we'll never know if Bush uses a computer. ;-)