Esquire story curtails Fallon's storied career

[Blue_Tires]

Source: The Virginian Pilot

Adm. William J. “Fox” Fallon made his career on a quick mind, immersion in details and a network of personal connections built like a beat cop and kept like a priest.

His four-star appointments placed him in parts of the world where friendship to the United States is in short supply and dwindling. Last year, he became commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East. True to form, he met the people, he listened and learned.

He spoke bluntly about the challenges. It may have cost him his job.

A lengthy Esquire magazine profile last month painted Fallon, 63, as the lone figure holding back a United States attack on Iran. The story pitted Fallon against the White House.



Read more: http://hamptonroads.com/2008/04/esquire-story-curtails-fallons-storied-career

[kristopher]

1. This is the loss of a leader.

"Jack Sheehan, a retired Marine Corps general and NATO commander, was offered the position of war czar by the White House a year ago. Sheehan said he seriously considered taking the position to give Fallon an ally in Washington.

He ultimately turned it down. “I called him up one day and said 'Fox, this is not going to work. As long as we have these crazy neocons there, we’ll never get anywhere.’”

Good article.

[saigon68]

3. As long as we have these crazy neocons there, we’ll never get anywhere.’”

[T Monk]

2. fascist purge of our military going on

[KSinTX]

4. This guy was my kind of leader who called 'em as he saw 'em

WASHINGTON, Sep 12 (IPS)
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39235

In sharp contrast to the lionisation of Gen. David Petraeus by members of the U.S. Congress during his testimony this week, Petraeus's superior, Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March, according to Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting.

Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be "an ass-kissing little chickenshit" and added, "I hate people like that", the sources say. That remark reportedly came after Petraeus began the meeting by making remarks that Fallon interpreted as trying to ingratiate himself with a superior.

His slot is still empty, if that tells you anything.