Admiral Fallon — arrogant, insubordinate, and worst of all, extremely vain. I’ve worked for folks like him before. They are a royal pain in the butt to everyone around them, and they actually enjoy it, wielding their power, arrogance and vanity to anyone and everyone in sight.
He liked to go public with his disagreements with Patraeus, Bush, Gates, and, like Bill Clinton, thought he was above reproach. The speed of his firing gives it away.
Where did the military get such a man, and why wasn’t he weeded out long ago?
The Peter Principle, maybe? Got promoted to his highest level of incompetence?
In too many ways, Bush is a weak Commander-in-Chief. He keeps lame military commanders like Fallon long past their expiration date, appoints assclowns like Donald Winter as Secretary of the Navy, and throws the terrific Peter Pace under the bus so he can replace him with homo-friendly, Democrat milquetoast Mullen. To top it all off, Bush has placed the conduct of the war in Iraq firmly in the hands of the scumbag ACLUers of JAG.
Combine these actions with Bush's inability or unwillingness to clean up the communist State Department and its partner, the rogue CIA, and what you end up with is a pathetic oaf of a CiC. Hurry up January, 2008 - - I truly hope McCain has the stones to do a better job.
....But no, I'm not counting on it.