Daniel Goure
Daniel Goure
Dan Gouré is the Vice President of the Lexington Institute, a thinktank based in Arlington, Virginia, and an analyst on national security and military issues for NBC. He has worked as an Adjunct Professor in the National Defense University's Homeland Security program under the SNSEE since 2003. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's advisory board...
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I am enormously skeptical that the Serbs are ready to negotiate, or more importantly, the Serbs that we are talking about here are the Serbs of Belgrade. (Bosnian Serb leader Slobodan) Milosevic, we have not heard from because the administration refused to directly negotiate with the Bosnian Serbs.
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I think it's just too early to tell how much a problem they have and whether they've actually turned the corner.
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The first was the creation of an Iraqi security capability, which we have well underway -- a quarter of a million (Iraqi personnel) doing various things. And number two was a functioning unity government, or something that at least had all the major groups represented. We now have that.
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They do not want to be out there in front if the United States is in the process of withdrawal. They can't be the last ones left standing in Iraq.
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We have been waiting for two things to happen to plan the beginning of our withdrawal.