Whose not to reason why?

摘要

One of the avowed virtues of nato, particularly after its post-cold-war makeover, is unquestioned civilian—and democratic—control over uniformed soldiers. Although the western alliance has in times past embraced dictatorial, army-backed regimes and still includes one large nation, Turkey, whose army can be bad news for its own citizens, nato's self-chosen mission these days involves the promotion of modern western ideas about civil-military relations.