Let us say that on May 25 President Abdurrahman Wahid really issues a decree to dissolve the legislature. Somehow he gets it through, against heavy resistance. Let us say the president beats back the opposition of the army, and smoothly gives the army chief of staff the sack.

Let us say he also takes the TNI commander out without provoking any serious trouble. And let us say for argument's sake that the new army chief of the staff and TNI command