Coup seemed like a good solution – until the soldiers became politicians

Kudos to The Nation for this editorial; I didn’t think they had it in them.
They are correct: the military has been a cancer on the body politic of Thailand for many, many years. And the best way to deal with a cancer is remove it completely and let the healthy tissue thrive. 
Samui Bodoh
I suspect that there are those who cheered on the coup in the expectation that the Army would simply turf out the Shinawatras then hand the country over to the Democrat Party. It will have come as a nasty shock when the Army started leaning back in the chairs at Government House, putting their boots up on the table and firing up stogies. But it’s too late now. They wanted the coup, they got the coup and all that went with it. Exit strategy? “Nah, I think we’ll stick around. Go and fill the kettle, there’s a good lad…’”
Baboon
The military should have been canned decades ago. But everyone here is too weak!
ChrisY1
Too many vested interests. It’s a mighty trough.
PatOngo
Yep, they’re in that conundrum expressed by the classical phrase “holding a wolf by the ears” – holding on indefinitely isn’t an option, but letting go is bloody risky.
nausea
And all of this is a huge symptom of “corruption”. Everyone is looking to line his own pockets. 
You have to hold the people in power accountable. They’re accountable to the people who voted them in and the people who didn’t. The law applies to everyone equally. Actually, there should be much more severe punishment for the people breaking the very laws they swore to uphold. Until this happens you’re just going to keep having corrupt government after corrupt government.
It all starts with education. Teach children how detrimental corruption is to ‘Thailand’, the economy, their wellbeing, their country’s development, etc. Teach that people who steal from the very people they are entrusted to take care of are the scum of the world. Attach a huge stigma to corrupt officials and practices of corruption. Put them in same category as rapists, murders and paedophiles.  
rkidlad
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