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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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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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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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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It says something about what the professional military is thinking. It's like they're saying, 'I thought these guys knew what they were doing.

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This British guy makes a lot of good points.

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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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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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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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