Arrogant Like a Fox
March 12th, 2008Due to a lack of a wide variety in significant political news today — fringe character Geraldine Ferraro is not important — this will be a brief post, but I would like to comment on the end of Admiral “Fox” Fallon’s career. Esquire magazine wrote a profile of this General who has been adamantly anti-invasion of Iran, anti-continuation of the Iraq War, and the General praises himself as the one man standing between Bush and another war. Now that he has been relieved of his duties, some people fear that the road has been cleared for a war with Iran. This is pure nonsense driven by a media hungry for a story, paranoids in need of a quick fix and a publicity hound’s grandiose sense of self. Here is a great piece by the inimitable Fred Kaplan on why he brought about his own demotion and how the likelihood of war with Iran is still incredibly low since Mr. Fallon is nowhere near the only man in the Administration opposed to such a war: Defense Secretary Gates and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs hold that position, and it is possible (in fact probable) that significant others in the White House and Pentagon think the same.