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.)

I never knew we were responsible for so many countries

Did they invite us, ask us to be involved, or did we just assume they needed help? And at the moment, I don't think the world community wants us to be the self-appointed world policeman. We've made kind of a hash of it, don't you think?

From the United States Central Command website, here is their area of responsibility:

(Got an eight minute visit from someone at this site (U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND (USCENTCOM)) checking out Operation Bite. Do you guys know something we don't know? Can we ask politely that you not attack Iran until we've cleaned up the messes we've made in Afghanistan and Iraq? And besides... we don't really have a reason to bomb Iran yet. Let's not have another disastrous preemptive strike to stop pretend WMDs.)