Top US Commander in Mideast to Retire EarlyNew York Times - 1 hour ago
By THOM SHANKER and DAVID STOUT WASHINGTON - Adm. William J. Fallon, the top American commander in the Middle East whose views on Iran and other issues have seemed to put him at odds with the Bush administration, is retiring early, the Pentagon said ...
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The official line is that he was NOT pushed out. But he had vowed we would not attack Iran under his watch and now his watch is over. What do you think?
We quoted Digby on this just last Wednesday.
UPDATE:
Digby's comments today may be found here.
UPDATE 2:
Josh Marshall is concerned:
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.
--the BB
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