Nov 12, 2007

Admiral Fallon: U.S. strike on Iran ‘not being prepared.’

Via ThinkProgress:

Admiral William Fallon, the head of U.S. Central Command, said a strike against Iran is “not in the offing.” Fallon added that the rhetoric of right-wing war hawks is unhelpful:

“None of this is helped by the continuing 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.

“Getting Iranian behaviour to change and finding ways to get them to come to their senses and do that is the real objective. Attacking them as a means to get to that spot strikes me as being not the first choice in my book.”

What does this mean?
- We're going to let Israel do it with consequences just as dire.
- Bush will pull back and claim that he is a peacemaker.
- Fallon is throwing down a gauntlet, and threatening to turn into Daniel Ellsberg.

All seem plausible.

The problem with Bush as president with control over foreign policy is that it renders the world very nervous, like watching a child with matches and a can of gasoline.

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