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'Fox' Fallon
Fired
And we're f*cked...
By Justin Raimondo
12/03/08 "Antiwar" -- - "If,
in the dying light of the Bush administration, we go to war with
Iran," says the March
Esquire, "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." The piece
describes this top military figure as the last obstacle to the
Bush administration's
persistent push for war with Iran: "It's left to" him and
him "alone … to argue that, as he told al-Jazeera
last fall: 'This constant drumbeat of conflict … is not
helpful and not useful. I expect that there will be no war, and
that is what we ought to be working [for].'"
That was Adm. William "Fox"
Fallon speaking, top U.S. commander in the Middle East, last of
the Vietnam vets in the high command, and, yes, the
very same Adm. Fallon who has just submitted his resignation
as head of Central Command. What makes this particularly ominous
is that,
according to former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst
Patrick Lang, Fallon told him, upon taking over at Centcom, that
war with Iran "isn't going to happen on my watch." Lang asked
him how he thought he could stop it: "'I have options, you
know,' Fallon responded, which Lang interpreted as implying
Fallon would step down rather than follow orders he considers
mistaken."
Do I really need to draw you a
picture to get you to imagine what's coming next? This is as
clear a signal as any that the Bush administration
intends to go out with a bang – one that will shake not only
the Middle East but this country to its very foundations.
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