War With Iran, Part 2

When Admiral William Fallon took over Central Command from General John Abizaid in March 2007, it looked ominously as if the neocons had the US Navy poised to bombard Iran as it did Lebanon in 1983. However, Admiral Fallon turned out to be a man of wisdom and integrity, not the war-monger the Israel Lobby had hoped for. Indeed, as reported in yesterday's The Wall Street Journal, Admiral Fallon argued "publicly that the White House's hard-line rhetoric and implied threats of military force against Iran were dangerous and unproductive." He also said an attack on Iran "would be a mistake." Similarly, Barack Obama, unlike Hillary Clinton and John McCain, favors diplomacy over unnecessary wars. Obama has pledged to meet with Iranian leaders. An article about Fallon in the current Esquire magazine by Thomas P. M. Barnett, a former professor at the Naval War College, is entitled "The Man Between War and Peace." Now Admiral Fallon has abruptly resigned, and it looks as if Barack Obama is the only man between war and peace. The is why the Israel Lobby is trying to destroy Obama.