The military is the strongest only political impediment keeping the US from attacking Iran. The President wants to attack. Congress will not stand up and the media has the war the graphics and smart bomb reruns ready to go.

Along with Secretary Gallon, Admiral Fallon was one on the few rational voice in our government. He has long advocated for a different approach to Iran. He knows the military is overstretched and that war make the region much less stable.

And now he is gone. He resigned after Thomas Barnett's article in Esquire magazine said he was at odds with the President of Iran and China.

The immediate problem is that we are not less safe for a one of few checks on the President's aggression. The long term question is how healthy is our democracy when the military is strongest voice for peace and the only ones seriously question war with Iran?