30-07-2016, 07:23 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:I believe this pretend "coup"...
With you so far...
Drew Phipps Wrote:...is a power grab on Erdogan's part.
No longer with you.
Luckily for me, you then set out the grounds for rejecting your own conclusion by referencing a string of covert ops...many more of which occurred in the US than Turkey:
Drew Phipps Wrote:There is plenty of historical similarity to other such power grabs, from Hitler's Reichstag fire, to Stalin's "Great Purge", to the Church Committee's finding that the FBI falsely blamed "enemies of the state" political activists for FBI-sponsored bombings under its "Cointelpro" program, Algeria, Latin America, 9/11 and Anthrax, ... (long list omitted).
Much the most likely candidate for conducting a pseudo-coup of some considerable sophistication - by which I mean a goal disguised, not ostensible - is...the CIA.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
Joseph Fouche
Joseph Fouche