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2008-03-12 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Sherry 2008-03-12 13:44|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Fallon was a China dove at the Pacific Command. The most embarrassing statement he made there was about helping the Chinese build aircraft carriers if they behaved. (Shades of the British helping the Japanese build the Imperial Japanese Navy prior to WWII - something that helped the Japanese overrun British possessions in the Far East during WWII). I think he was booted sideways to a figurehead position at the Central Command. Fallon wasn't content to be a figurehead, so here he is today.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2008-03-12 20:16|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-03-12 20:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Fallon and Petraeus replaced Casey and Abazaid at a time when the war was not going well. Bush appointed Petraeus because he had a strategy for winning the war in Iraq that Bush bought. Part of the cost for getting Petraeus approved and the defence appropriation approved was appointing Fallon to give peace a chance with Iran as well as to appease Pelosi and Reid while Petraeus pacified Iraq.

Well, Petraeus pacified Iraq as he said he would. Fallon, State, and the CIA had their opportunity to give peace a chance and they got Mookie in a Tehran sanatorium instead. Now that the carrots didn't work with the Mullahs, it's time to show some stick, and that's why Fallon was terminated. Just another signal to Nutjob that he's now in the crosshairs.

Another misunderestimated strategery.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-03-12 20:59|| 2008-03-12 20:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Compare wid STRATEGYPAGE > Al QAEDA'S FADING VICTORY: THE MADRID PRECEDENT. Alludes to OBAMA appeaking to left-wing voetrs steeped in DEFEATISM, the 2008 POTUS elex, + the so-called "IRAQ PRECENDENT".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-03-12 21:29|| 2008-03-12 21:29|| Front Page Top

#4 McClellan and Halleck led to Grant and Sherman. Sounds like a theme.

Posted by Harcourt Jush7795 2008-03-12 23:05|| 2008-03-12 23:05|| Front Page Top

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