Checks and balances.(LETTERS)

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Gregory D. Foster accuses Michael Barone of "profound ignorance of the U.S. military officer corps and a shallow inability to get beyond the trite civil-military platitudes of the past" ("Fallon's fall," Letters, Monday). That's quite a mouthful to tell Mr. Barone that he is wrong in thinking that Adm. William Fallon's public opposition to the Iraq war constitutes insubordination.

He lectures Mr. Barone by saying: ".. those in uniform have every right to receive (and even demand) strategically sound direction (unsullied by ...