Still waiting for Admiral Fallon... Posted by Max Bergmann

Back in September many pointed out that it was odd that Admiral Fallon - Petraeus' direct superior and the man in charge of the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan - was not called to testify as well.

This was a significant departure from Fallon's predecessor General John Abizaid and Petraeus' predecessor General George Casey. When Abizaid was CENTCOM commander and Casey was commander of operations in Iraq the two almost never appeared separately and Abizaid as CENTCOM commander was clearly Casey's superior (examples here, here).

One explanation for Fallon's absence was because him and Petraeus didn't get along and weren't on the same page, as the Washington Post and Think Progress noted in September. The Post even quoted an administration official saying:

Bad relations?... That's the understatement of the century... If you think Armageddon was a riot, that's one way of looking at it.

These reports and the sycophant performance by Petraeus prompted Senator Webb to say:

So I'm going to be recommending to Senator Levin that we get Admiral Fallon in and get his views on the region.

But it has been more than six weeks since Petraeus testified and still Admiral Fallon has not been called to testify before the House or Senate Armed Services Committees. As far as I can tell, Fallon hasn't testified since last Spring.

Shouldn't the top military commander in charge of running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan be called in to testify? We have heard from Petraeus his underling, it is time we hear from him.

Comments

[Zathras]

I'd been wondering that myself. Good call.

Not that I agree with the characterization of Petraeus. It was really the job of Senators on the two committees before which he testified to point out that the larger questions of national policy affected by the Iraq war are not appropriately addressed by the local ground forces commander. They didn't do it. I don't think that Petraeus' approach in Iraq is the right one, but in perfect fairness to him, he has a job. It isn't fair to expect him or any uniformed officer to do that job and elected officials' jobs as well.

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