Jesus, Mary and Joseph (that's a prayer, not an exclamation)

Admiral Fallon, the CENTCOM commander who was widely believe to be against war with Iran, has resigned. Josh Marshall says for the record that at this point it's not publicly known whether he fell or was pushed. But you don't resign a military post of that nature unless you're suffering some grave personal crisis or the administration wants you out. I'm betting on the latter. And Josh writes (Big Picture on Fallon TPM 03/11/08):

It is widely believed in media and political circles that despite the difficulties in Iraq and Afghanistan, American foreign policy is back under some kind of adult/mainstream management. In other words, that we've left the Cheney/Rumsfeld era behind for a period of Gates/Rice normalcy and that Iran regime change adventurism is safely off the table. But put together what the disagreements with Fallon were about, the fact that the president chose him as someone he thought he could work with not more than one year ago, and the almost unprecedented nature of the resignation and it becomes clear that that assumption must be gravely in error.

Tags: iraq war, iran war

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