Pacing Himself

Gen. Pace was not renewed as the head of the joint chiefs. The presenting story was that he needed to spend more time with his family that his confirmation would be contentious. This is an explanation that smells to me.

Steve Clemons offers us another possibility. The short version? Pace was fired for being too political, i.e. the Libby letter and some previous comments about gays. Not to mention that his association with the mess in Iraq might have started to smell like old fish.