Why We Shall Need Admiral Fallon

We shall need people like him in the military, people who support the traditional and historic view of the USA. Hari Seldon appeared at the vault yesterday:

Hari Seldon

note: I used a photo of Asa Kasher to represent Hari Seldon.

There will be a great temptation to start a war as the election draws nearer. Those who believe utterly and deeply in the Culture of Constant War will be panicked like rats to launch their millenial mission of savagery. I ask, who romanticizes war? President George Bush recently envied the front-line soldiers for their "romantic" lives of danger. So also did Kaiser Wilhelm. In fact, there are a lot of similarities between Kaiser Wilhelm II and President Bush II. I won't go into them here, because I am not really interested in parallels between the two, other than their fascination with war, and - by implication - death. If the Democratic Party appears headed for victory, what little that passes for moral restraint in the mind of George Bush will unravel rapidly, and he will be haunted by not only the opprobrium of having been the worst president in history, but also he will rationalize his fear into a scenario of the victory of terrorists. He will interpret his overwhelming despair as a rational response to his imaginary picture of a rule of Islam and Terror, not as the utter failure of a misbegotten administration, which it actually is. And he will be tempted to strike. He will be tempted to restore the nation to a war time footing. He will suspend habeas corpus for a multitude of enemies. Those whom he perceives as his own enemies, he will now see as treasonous enemies to the USA. He will out-Mugabe even Mugabe. We shall need a military that supports the USA, not the mad man.