[garbanzo]

Either the government can go for “shock and awe” and slaughter so many people that there will be no more riots

Were you an informal advisor for Muammar Gaddafi?

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Were you an informal advisor for Muammar Gaddafi?” <<

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Wesley Clark, Mt. Carmel, Waco Texas.
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[NVDave]

Nope, but Quaddafi’s actions were consistent with government end-games.

I’m merely pointing out what will be crossing the minds of the Greek leadership as their government swirls the drain. If you think they’re some sort of “pure as driven snow” “foundation of western democracy,” you really need to go back and read or re-read the history of Greece following WWII, in particular ‘46 to ‘48. And yes, they were shooting people in the streets back then.

This is merely Act III of the Greek Civil War from the post-WWII era. The irony now is that, in the streets, the anarchists and communists are at each others’ throats, instead of fascists and communists from the past.

The smart move for the US this time is to stay the heck out of it and let them kill as many of each other as possible.