It looks as if the White House has found a worthy successor to Donald Rumsfeld. Spencer Ackermann reports here on the confirmation hearings for Admiral Bill Fallon, the new commander of US forces in the Middle East. After dodging most of the questions, Fallon produced this gem:
Perhaps most egregiously, when hawkish Republican Senator Lindsay Graham fished for an endorsement of his view that the US can win in Iraq, Fallon commented, “I don’t know what ‘winning’ is,” before pausing, realizing that he might have just made some unfortunate headlines, and backpedaling.