Lawrence Korb
Lawrence Korb
Lawrence J. Korbis a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a senior adviser to the Center for Defense Information. He was formerly director of national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth9 July 1939
CountryUnited States of America
act incentive provide timetable
A timetable would provide an incentive. As long as we're there, there's no incentive for (Iraqis) to get their act together.
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But on balance I'd say we had a net loss. Unfortunately, these other issues dominated that expose the US to charges of hypocrisy.
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And here's Rumsfeld. Among other things, he just stayed too long.
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I think he has now bought himself some time to withdraw slowly. But that assumes everything goes as planned next year.
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No secretary of defense who has ever stayed more than one term has ever turned out well. McNamara and Weinberger, both if they had left at the end of their first term would have gone down in history much differently.
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Who is out there that is more ready than we are? What military in the world are we not ready to take on? I think it's dangerous to convey to the rest of the world who looks to us to provide leadership that we have more problems than we are letting on.
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What it's going to mean is some short-term gains, but a long-term disaster. You're going to have less research and development as you get down to probably four major companies.
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What Katrina exposed, the questions over renditions and torture of terror suspects, and now the domestic spying controversy - all of this has really hit our image hard around the world.
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With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.
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It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.
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There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.
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This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.
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We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.
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The real issue here is that you have a policy that is costing us money, hurting readiness and is really not fulfilling any national security objective.