Yeah, that sounds like bush-think to me."

Posted by Tlaloc

Remember, it gets easier if one's goal is not to *win* such a war, but to merely start one.

Plus there is the whole tensions from having an Admiral with no mid-east experience running CENTCOM, which is overwhelming Army staffed.

UPDATE: Blackfive’s Matt Burden, whom I met this evening, offers some interesting scuttlebutt: The resignation was prompted “not for disagreements with the administration about a looming war with Iran, but for some other internal ‘issues’ that have nothing to do with policy or the administration.”

I don't even know why you mention this--This Burden character offers absolutely no evidence for this claim or any insight as to what the "issues" might be.

He must be the same "well placed source" who told you that Spitzer was going to resign on Monday at 7pm.

Actually, I have heard that Fallon resigned because he is actually "Client 4" in the Emperors Club complaint. Like Burden, that is all I can say about it right now.

Bush Derrangement Syndrome is in full force this morning. I do not know why Fallon resigned. I do not even know what his role is in advising the president.

I will say that he has been quoted as opposing any action in Iran for some time, not just in the article quoted. He has also been quoted as opposing the surge.

I would suggest that his role in the military does not extend to publicly opposing US foreign policy.

Can you say "Shinseckied"?

(sorry for my horrible spelling... I am too tired tonight to make my searches more accurate)

If he is pushing his candidacy as both supportive of Bush's general foreign policy ideology but against Bush's failed management of it, surely he has some views on this resignation.

If the new Central Command chief is General Stanley McChrystal, who ran special operations in Iraq until recently (read: responses to Iranian activities), that’ll be a pretty solid indicator that Bush is going to make the most of his last months in office.

Six months to take on a large mountainous country with a big standing army and established paramilitary groups, as well as an advanced air defence system, located in a geopolitical hotspot, with easy access to two of our armies that currently have their hands full, possibly in possession of supercavitating torpoedos our carrier groups are vulnerable to, in control of enormous oil resources, and with a strategic position in command of a key waterways we absolutely depend upon?

Yeah, that sounds like bush-think to me.

That would work! The subprime fiasco would totally vanish from the front pages!

Ackerman mentions McChrystal as a potential replacement. If he is nominated, the Senate should not confirm him without knowing more about his involvement in prisoner torture. He was the head of Special Operations Command while special forces task forces that did not answer to CJTF-7 were torturing prisoners in Iraq, & a former interrogator has told Human Rights Watch that he saw McChrystal at Camp NAMA.

Lovely.

I truly hope that the truth comes out quickly on this controversy and that it turns out to be an honest difference of emphasis. Otherwise, the reputation of one or both of these men will be seriously harmed.

As I see it either both or neither will have a problem.

Either Fallon did have problems with Bush's stance on Iran- in which case he isn't a complete retard and Barnett was right, OR
Fallon is on board with the warmongering in which case Barnett was wrong and Fallon should be publically pilloried for incompetence.

Looks like the former based on the update. Naturally being competent and working for Bush are mutually exclusive, so once Fallon's secret got out...