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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Crazy Horse on March 11, 2008, 02:39:40 PM
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Breaking now
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336849,00.html
Admiral Fallon Resigns as Head of Centcom
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
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WASHINGTON — Admiral William Fallon, the head of U.S. Central Command, which leads U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is stepping down, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Tuesday.
Gates said Fallon said misperceptions about differences between his ideas and U.S. policy are making it too difficult for him to operate. Gates said their differences are not extreme, but the misperception has become too great.
I don't know whether he was misinterpreted or whether people attributed views to him that were not his views, but clearly there was a concern," Gates said.
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Yeah this story confused me. What "misperceptions"?
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Yeah this story confused me. What "misperceptions"?
Adm. Fallon...in an interview with Esquire Magazine is quoted basically as saying it was him and him alone standing up to Bush/Cheney and singlehandedly preventing them from going to war with Iran.
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If, in the dying light of the Bush administration, we go to war with Iran, it'll all come down to one man. If we do not go to war with Iran, it'll come down to the same man. He is that rarest of creatures in the Bush universe: the good cop on Iran, and a man of strategic brilliance. His name is William Fallon, although all of his friends call him "Fox," which was his fighter-pilot call sign decades ago. Forty years into a military career that has seen this admiral rule over America's two most important combatant commands, Pacific Command and now United States Central Command, it's impossible to make this guy--as he likes to say--"nervous in the service." Past American governments have used saber rattling as a useful tactic to get some bad actor on the world stage to fall in line. This government hasn't mastered that kind of subtlety. When Dick Cheney has rattled his saber, it has generally meant that he intends to use it. And in spite of recent war spasms aimed at Iran from this sclerotic administration, Fallon is in no hurry to pick up any campaign medals for Iran. And therein lies the rub for the hard-liners led by Cheney. Army General David Petraeus, commanding America's forces in Iraq, may say, "You cannot win in Iraq solely in Iraq," but Fox Fallon is Petraeus's boss, and he is the commander of United States Central Command, and Fallon doesn't extend Petraeus's logic to mean war against Iran.
http://www.esquire.com/features/fox-fallon
He also seems to have butted heads with Gen. Petraeus as well.
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Gee, a Navy admiral who doesn't "get it" vis-a-vis ground combat?
Color me shocked--and I'm a Navy puke.