Easily the best news I’ve read in a while…
November 15th, 2007http://www.truthdig.com…sane_officers_oppose_cheney/
“In a front-page interview published on Nov. 12 by the Financial Times, Admiral William Fallon, who heads the U.S. Central Command, spoke in diplomatic tones, as top military officers usually tend to do when they make strong political statements. Yet there was no mistaking the admiral’s message. While Iran certainly poses a “challenge,” he said, U.S. policymakers must engage Tehran to encourage changes in the regime’s behavior. But the Iranians won’t “come to their senses” while under threat of bombardment, invasion or worse.
“None of this is helped by the 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 with a degree of exasperation. “It seems to me that we don’t need more problems. It astounds me that so many pundits and others are spending so much time yakking about this topic [of war against Iran].””
I am amazed and grateful there are people in the military who are willing to act as diplomats against the insane cock-slobbering assholerly of Dick Cheney. I thought all of the people who disagreed with their course of action were fired resigned.
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Ok, this also might be the best news I’ve read in a while. A porn site made with actual footage from Fox News. Amazing.
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Tough call!
Assholery…..love it.
Admiral Fallon is in the military. The last time I checked those in the military take orders from the President and his appointees, not the other way around. Also, they don’t have access to all of the information like the President, so their view of things is much more limited than that of the President, especially in regards to diplomatic efforts. In other words, the good admiral should really stick to taking orders and not insert himself into geopolitics, if that’s indeed what he’s doing. It’s hard to say without seeing the full transcript of the interview. He may have been grossly taken out of context. In any case, the admiral isn’t saying that the Bush administration is wrong, but only confirmed that they weren’t preparing for any strikes on Iran. Further, Admiral Fallon also said the following which was conveniently left out of the analysis presented by the author of this article:
“There has got to be some combination of strength and willingness to engage. How to come up with the right combination of that is the real trick.”
In saying this, he admits that he doesn’t know what steps are necessary to strike the proper “balance” to achieve the desired results. That’s a far cry from denouncing the Bush administration for their approach.
Last time I checked, the President (and the rest of the government) was supposed to be the defenders of the constitution and represent the will of the people…
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Regarding ‘geopolitics’, are you suggesting that the Bush administration is not wrong?
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Far cry from denouncement? It seems to me that the quote about strength and willingness to engage is a subtle way of saying that the military is stretched thin, yet the administration is chomping at the bit to open another front in their endless war campaign. That the “right balance needs struck” suggests that he believes the correct balance is NOT being struck by those “giving orders”. I don’t know about convenient, it seems that quote could have been used to great effect in the analysis, looks like a lost opportunity to me…
Fox news porn is hilarious
Aww. I am just dropping by to say HI!
Nice blog you’ve there GaS! Keep it up! I am not that much into english reading but those US political discussion will keep me close to your site.
Cheers :)
jm/Z
It’s too bad that those in the military have to take orders from a complete MORON who continues to run this country into the ground!
Welcome to my humble abode Znaptar! I know you aren’t easily offended by obscenity, hope you don’t mind rampant, potent hatred of the Bush administration…