Michael O'Hanlon
Michael O'Hanlon
American foreign policy and defense analyst who worked for The Brookings Institution, a government think tank.
ProfessionOther
Date of Birth16 May 1961
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These numbers matter a lot, ... They matter in humanitarian terms. And they fuel the insurgency, because the perception and sometimes the reality is that we haven't done enough to protect innocent Iraqi lives.
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Bush is implicated. For Bush to fire Rumsfeld is for Bush to declare himself a failure as president. Iraq is the main issue of his presidency.
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It's not going well. That's really the simple answer. It's very hard to see how progress can be made in the economic realm without progress first in the security realm.
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I believe that is not affordable even in this age of surpluses, ... wrong.
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It's a referendum on the centerpiece of the Bush presidency.
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What is a problem is when you have no particular plan to pay off the debt.
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The fact that he has managed to elude capture for four years bodes well for his long term ability to stay at large.