Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Is it just me?

Or is Admiral Fallon the only thing between us and WWIII? (WWIV? Just what number are we on?):

Admiral William Fallon, the head of U.S. Central Command, said a strike against Iran is “not in the offing.” Fallon added that the rhetoric of right-wing war hawks is unhelpful:

“None of this is helped by the continuing stories that just keep going around and around and around that any day now there will be another war which is just not where we want to go,” he said.

“Getting Iranian behaviour to change and finding ways to get them to come to their senses and do that is the real objective. Attacking them as a means to get to that spot strikes me as being not the first choice in my book.”

It will be interesting to find out how much we owe to Admiral Fallon for the non-war we're in with Iran.

Thank you, sir, for your service.

(I've posted about him before.)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

At least one cooler head is prevailing, for now.

Anonymous said...

How long before they decide it's time for Fallon to retire?

ellroon said...

I'm amazed it hasn't happened sooner. This article mentions 6 naval commanders sacked in May, about the time we were having uh... war exercises right outside Iran's backdoor. It disappeared off the news radar without comment, but I wonder if people were refusing to get in line to attack Iran.