The army corps general Mircea Chelaru, this old-fashioned military man adjusted to the contemporary era, slapped the Romanian army in the face with such a force, that the flush won't disappear too soon. We all know that more and more Romanians who think that they are brilliant are convinced that Romania's salvation depends on their involvement in politics. This idea is supported by the fact that each and every year more and more presidential candidates appear during the electoral period. This is an advantage and a risk at the same time: democracy offers enough room for both maximum liberty and excesses. 28 generals and colonels of the Romanian army have recently decided that their involvement in the political life is necessary for the Romanians' well-being. It is not diifficult to imagine them discussing about the present state of the country while drinking a pint of beer in a military club in Bucharest. Confused by Pavel Corut's cock-and-bull stories and Dan Zamfirescu's mixture of orthodoxy and politics, to which they add the information they've got from the secret intelligent services, they think they can change what is happening in Romania now. Since they cannot go to the front in order to win this battle, they decided to create a "national" association meant to fight for the country's progress. As one of its outstanding members, general Costica Voicu, puts it, "the association's purpose is to do what the present authorities can not do, do not know to do or do not want to do." Such a declaration would have led to its author's immediate dismissal, if it had ben uttered in any democratic country." The officials of the remarkable American institute of strategic studies STRATFOR have already noticed what was happening in the Romanian army; they have already published an analysis focused on this topic. General Mircea Chelaru, the founder of this strange association, n