Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted in a Washington Times editorial, "Clinging to Defeatism."
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Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted in a Washington Times editorial, "Clinging to Defeatism."
Senate Democrats yesterday provided yet another sorry illustration of the fact that they are thoroughly invested in the defeat of U.S. military forces in Iraq. This happened despite the growing evidence that the troop surge is damaging al Qaeda, and that the Iraqis are making remarkable progress on the political front as well. . . .
Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who until a few months ago had been a ferocious critic of the Iraq war, recently returned with a very different perspective. He now thinks that the war is winnable. But a "serious [U.S.] military and advisory presence will probably be needed" until at least 2012, he says, while "rushed reductions in forces or providing inadequate forces will lead to a collapse at the military level." Senate Democrats insist on clinging to defeatist talking points when they should be rethinking their own strategy amid the cold and hard facts.
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