Der amerikanische Polemiker Daniel Pipes ist so weit gegangen, die Militärputsche von 1960, 1971, 1980 und 1997 beinahe gut zu heißen.
Daniel Pipes, an American polemicist, has gone so far as almost to endorse the military coups of 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997, arguing that “on four occasions between 1960 and 1997, the military intervened to repair a political process gone awry.”