Another Compassionate Conservative

Esquire has published The Man Between War And Peace. It is about the head of U. S. Central Command, Admiral William "Fox" Fallon. Here is a short segment:

And Fallon is in no hurry to call Iran's hand on the nuclear question. He is as patient as the White House is impatient, as methodical as President Bush is mercurial, and simply has, as one aide put it, "other bright ideas about the region." Fallon is even more direct: In a part of the world with "five or six pots boiling over, our nation can't afford to be mesmerized by one problem."

And if it comes to war?

"Get serious," the admiral says. "These guys are ants. When the time comes, you crush them."

Meanwhile, all of us patient United States citizens will quietly wait for the blowback to come.