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Traci Lindsten  09/12/2008 02:42 PM Report

Admiral Fallon is one of the most interesting and brilliant men I have seen Charlie interview lately. And that's saying something...

His temperament, quiet confidence and intelligence gave this civilian a renewed faith in military leadership. I appreciate that he is not intimidated by this administration and understands the importance his resolve in stating facts and having an objective perspective has on the non-military public understanding.

Christopher  08/02/2008 02:52 AM Report

I thought the military picture is pretty bad in the Middle East. He flirted with the US intervention in Lebanon. He did not mention what Reagon did in Lebanon. He CUT and RAN. A brilliant strategy. It is my strategy. For politicians to believe that Iran will somehow takeover Iraq is ridiculous. The have been over 100 000 US troops, the best equiped in the world for over 5 years. I am putting forward, if the US cannot pacify the country, I don't think the Iranians can. Let them try, and instead of having US troops die for nothing, let the Iranians die and the US finance Iraqi terrorists. I don't get the praise he is getting in the comments.

George Pupala  07/31/2008 07:26 PM Report

Please use some video distribution program that permits full screen viewing. Whenever we miss a program it's really difficult watching on such a small window on the PC. How about the new Adobe Media player?

Your programs are a must-see!

Thanks,

George Pupala / 770-998-0072

gpupala@att.net

Hossein Barfaroosh  07/31/2008 03:05 PM Report

I accept him as our dictator.

ex-blue devil  07/30/2008 11:03 PM Report

In response to Dave Levi:

The German people went through the terrible experience that resulted when shrewd and malevolent forces gained power over their society. Ordinary Germans have had to reconcile knowledge of what happened with their own sense of humanity and, as a result, appreciate that imperialism and militarism make for immoral, inhumane, unsustainable and ultimately counterproductive national strategies and foreign policies.

Evil...personified in those who would distort history and belie the humanity of other peoples in order to justify their own militaristic and imperialist ends.

damion  07/30/2008 10:48 PM Report

radicals...the impeachment is not ever going to happen. It is only in small areas outside Washington that Impeachment is mentioned with any energy. that is to say if it isnt discussed in Washington it isnt going to happen..get over it and celebrait Barak as the next President, because he will be

Tyler  07/30/2008 09:57 PM Report

What a brilliant warrior this Fallon is... a carefully calibrated blend of brawn and brains. It is obvious that the current success in Iraq is due in part to enablers like this smart guy, not just the talented General Petraeus, as some of our whining surge soother sucking statesmen like to claim. We should thank men like him and Gates for their leadership and avoidance of disastrous entanglements in neighbouring parts. It is too bad the ideological lenses with which the Bush-Cheney Complex tends to see the world prevented them from coming to terms with Fallon's overall analysis. Why do they drive out such clear-thinking people from key decision-making positions only to vindicate them by their subsequent overtures to, and grudging engagement of, Iran? Anyway, a word of caution about foreigners who seem to have a tin ear to our discouraging noises about the pursuit of nuclear programmes. Many people around the world are aware that the people shouting the loudest about other people's programmes are themselves spending billions expanding or renewing theirs, or running rings around the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. These people are also aware that some of their beloved brethren and their offspring in the New World have the annoying habit of the guest who pays a visit and then never leaves. Once given the keys to the guest room, experience in continent after continent shows that this guest very quickly arranges matters such that the hosts are grateful for being allowed to stay in the guest room, at the end of the day. This has taught clear-thinking householders with anything of value in their premises, to develop deterrents to this annoying Darwinian guest propensity. This includes never letting the guest become comfortable, acquiring home invasion insurance, and developing the ability to bring the whole house down as a last resort. So, forget about Iran ever completely giving up its nuclear programme. Effort should be directed at engagement and containment, and safeguarding the security of allies.

Mark  07/30/2008 02:19 PM Report

Sad that such a fine man like Adm. William Fallon finds himself and his family constantly bullied and threatened with the loss of job, income, and even life if he does not follow the Cheney Administration and the Likudniks.

Wonder why Charlie never asked Adm. Fallon about the persistent threats against him and his family by various Likudnik elements at home and abroad?

Maybe Shelly Alderson told Charlie to shut his yap and just make his weekly trip to the Caymans to collect his reward?

Butchie  07/29/2008 07:55 PM Report

Please, more on impeachment. Interview maybe Conyers....hard to imagine Charlie interviewing Kucinic..surprise me!!!

sock puppet  07/29/2008 03:39 PM Report

And the Lebon peace award goes to L&M for equal parts rationality and succinctness. Striving arbiters of a creeping and inevitable apocolypse. Zeal has appeal. (Unfortunately.)

Dave Levi  07/29/2008 08:45 AM Report

I started to read the rant on the Admiral but after a few of the worst moments I've spent in years reading Internet site comments, I simply threw up and up and up. I won't use more words to dignify anything written, but it has to be obvious to me that he is either on medicine or needs to be. What awful writing, beyond description. The faster this comment is deleted, the better. Just extremely verbose, with nothing of any value to the reader, an expose of the writer than the person interviewed by Charlie.

That said, Admiral's don't make policy, they carry it out. He should have worked for the Department of State, as a policy maker, or in the policy department. The great fact of America is the separation of powers. Congress makes the laws and fiances them. The Executive is Commander in Chief and makes, along with Congress policy. Admiral's help ships to avoid being sunk, that's it. and to carry out whatever the mission is. He says we should talk to everyone, including, most especially Iran. Why I ask, we already know what Iran's goals are, why give them more time? They have lied consistently and stalled any attempt at stopping their enrichment of uraniaum, in defiance of 3 UNSC resolutions. Why do we have a UN at all, if this is the case? Our talks, at every level with the mad mullahs have gone no where. Every projected date for their regime in Tehran to enrich uranium sufficient to produce an atomic bomb has been off by years.

They have stated their ambitions, why the procrastination on the world's part to stop them? As far as Iraq, had there been no 911, we would not have invaded. Iraq's Saddam invaded Iran, Kuwait, sent Scuds into Saudi Arabia and Israel, killed over 1 million Muslims in the Iranian War, destroyed a people in Kuwait, killed his own relatives, killed hundreds of thousands of so-called "Marsh Arab" as well Kurds, ignited over 1,000 oil wells during the Kuwait war and, like Iran, had defied 16 UNSC resolutions after the Gulf War cease fire. Saddam has sent 500 missiles into Iran using mustard and other gases. He supported various terrorist group, giving them a safe haven, funding, encouragement, arms, etc. He had used WMD and had the infrastructure to reconstitute them at any time. He lied to the inspectors (UNSCOM). He was not the only dictator the world has ever known, but one of the worse, and most dangerous. He had to be stopped at some point.

President Bush, according to many well written books by insiders, did in fact listen to and pay attention to his myriad advisers, then made a decision to attack and rightfully so. He knew that Saddams' hatred for US was so intense, that someday he would supply a terrorist group with componants to explode a device on our shores (small pox, etc.), causing hundreds of thousand of injuries. He stopped that potential cold.

The US as the world's only superpower, has the added responsibility to, to some extent, police the world when it is in our interest's. Bringing down Saddam was the latest example. A fly-over of B1s and B2s of Iran's 30 nukes sites may be another.

Regarding Israel, one commenter says we (US) aided Israel and other countries in their nuclear development. You have it backwards, their people aied US. I haven't heard Israel's Prime Minister downplaying the importance of US involvement in World War 2, or threatening our (US) cities with mass destruction, or saying our loss of 350,000 men and women during the war was a myth.

Like all of Charlie's other guests, this was the attempt at selling what amounts to crap to his so-called intellectual audience.

To digress, when Obama spoke in Germany, the huge crowd applauded his pacifistic (and naive) view of the world. They ( the Germans ) have overcommensated for their father's actions during WW2. They now believe killing is evil, any killing. They don't realize that it is not evil to kill evil, personified

in Iraq and Iran.

Cori Gunnells  07/29/2008 12:46 AM Report

Dear Charlie,

I was profoundly moved by your interview with Admiral William Fallon. At the conclusion, I checked your website to see if I could view it again, and am glad to see that the video will be archived.

I learned many things from that interview - mostly, that we do have fine individuals, with many levels of intelligence, who lead the top levels of our government's military. I felt hope, and inspiration that we indeed do have individuals who can view the well being of our planet and it's inhabitants, and who understand the ways which our U.S. government can and should conduct themselves.

Hopefully, he will be 'on purpose' again within our government, in a future administration. He would be a true beacon in our future endeavors.

Also - Charlie, I am so glad to see you in good health, and back on the air. Your contribution to this planet is also 'on purpose', and I thank you for sharing your talent and wisdom.

Cori Gunnells