The more things change... It occurred to me reading this that we've overthrown Greece before, we could do it again. Operation Gladio All the economic theorists keep talking about this as if the choices are force Greece to accept austerity or watch the Euro collapse. A coup in Greece would accomplish whatever goals the EU wants it to accomplish. It would also send exactly the signal they want the anti-austerity parties of Spain, Italy and Portugal to take away from all this: keep it up and we'll replace your government with one of our choosing. Must be Monday, I'm feeling cynical.Phillips Talbot, the US ambassador in Athens, disapproved of the military coup which established the "Regime of the Colonels" (1967–1974), complaining that it represented "a rape of democracy" – to which Jack Maury, the CIA chief of station in Athens, answered: "How can you rape a whore?"