Adios Bill

The second thing you learn in the military leadership training, right after where the chow hall is located, is that it’s OK to dissent up to the point of decision, but after the decision is made you shut up, get on board or get out. Apparently CENTCOM Regional Commander, Adm. William Fallon, headed directly to the chow hall at his leadership training and missed lesson two.

Fallon is obviously a bright guy - so bright in fact that he fancy’s himself as the brightest guy in the room. Why else would he go Al Jezeera TV and while pretending to be the president say, “This constant drumbeat of conflict ... is not helpful and not useful. I expect that there will be no war, and that is what we ought to be working for. We ought to try to do our utmost to create different conditions."

I expect the president and people who know something about how to handle Islamo-terror-fascists wanted the Mullahs in Tehran to at least have to consider that Cowboy George might bomb their asses off late one night. Why take that card off the table? Well, yes I have three wild cards, but I will not play them during this hand when the fate of America has been thrown into the pot.

That is called the Vietnam strategy of card playing. Let your opponents know you have the best hand, but you have no intention of playing it. Then spend the next 35 years telling everyone how you could have won the pot, if you’d only played your best cards.

Really, that’s quite brilliant. So brilliant in fact, the average guy doesn’t even understand it. It takes a guy like Fallon to truly understand the genius of losing and then bragging about how you could have won. Cue the Twilight Zone theme music.

Then there’s this from today’s Washington Post:

"The fact is that [Central Command] had the external responsibility to protect our troops in Iraq from the outside and under Fallon they failed to do it," said retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, a military analyst. "We have done nothing to protect our soldiers from external threats in Iraq."

Others said Adm. Fallon was pushed to resign.

"No matter what [Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates] said [Tuesday], we know for a fact Admiral Fallon was fired," said a former senior Defense official who works closely with military officials in the region. "We have kids — soldiers — getting killed because Iran, Syria and other foreign fighters are coming across the border into Iraq, and yet Fallon was unwilling to do anything to hold [those nations] accountable."

Now Dems, sensing blood in the water, want Fallon to testify with Gen Petraeus this Spring. Bad move. Fallon will either say nothing to support the Dem’s surrender at all cost position on Iraq or will be made to look as foolish as the Dems when faced with the progress being achieved under Petraeus in Iraq.

My sense is – adios Bill. Now we can get someone in there that will kill the people trying to kill our soldiers.