The Good Fight: Why Liberals - and Only Liberals - Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again moderated by Lawrence J. Korb and featuring panelists Peter Beinart, William Kristol and Jeffrey Goldberg.
In his latest book, "The Good Fight," Mr. Beinart argues that Democrats are failing to recognize the threat to our national security posed by Islamic fundamentalists. During this event held at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, Mr. Beinart suggests that liberals should develop alternative policies for the Iraq War to counter the aggressive unilateralism practiced by the Republicans. William Kristol (Weekly Standard) and Jeffrey Goldberg (New Yorker) comment on Mr. Beinart's vision of what the liberal posture should be in a post September 11th world.
Bio
Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart is an American journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York. He is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast website. Beinart worked at The New Republic until 2006, for much of the time writing The New Republic's signature "TRB" column, which was reprinted in the New York Post and other major American newspapers.
From 2007 to 2009, Beinart was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Beinart is the author of The Good Fight: Why Liberals, and Only Liberals, Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, and The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris.
Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent of The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, he was Middle East correspondent and Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. Previously, Goldberg served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. His book Prisoners has been hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by several publications including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.
Goldberg is the recipient of numerous awards including the Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize, the National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist, to name a few. Goldberg was a public policy scholar in 2002 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and in 2001 he was the Syrkin fellow in letters of the Jerusalem Foundation.
Dr. Lawrence J. Korb
Lawrence J. Korb is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Adviser to the Center for Defense Information. Prior to joining the Center, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From July 1998 to October 2002, he was Council Vice President, Director of Studies, and holder of the Maurice Greenberg Chair. Prior to joining the Council, Mr. Korb served as Director of the Center for Public Policy Education and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, Dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and Vice President of Corporate Operations at the Raytheon Company.
Mr. Korb served as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and Logistics) from 1981 through 1985. In that position, he administered about 70 percent of the Defense budget. For his service in that position, he was awarded the Department of Defense’s medal for Distinguished Public Service. Mr. Korb served on active duty for four years as Naval Flight Officer, and retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Captain.
Mr. Korb’s 20 books and more than 100 articles on national security issues include "The Joint Chiefs of Staff: The First Twenty-five Years," "The Fall and Rise of the Pentagon," "American National Security: Policy and Process, Future Visions for U.S. Defense Policy," "Reshaping America’s Military," and "A New National Security Strategy in an Age of Terrorists, Tyrants, and Weapons of Mass Destruction." His articles have appeared in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Public Administration Review, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Naval Institute Proceedings, and International Security.
William Kristol
William Kristol is editor of the influential Washington-based political magazine, The Weekly Standard. Widely recognized as one of the nation's leading political analysts and commentators, Mr. Kristol regularly appears on Fox News Sunday and on the Fox News Channel. Before starting The Weekly Standard in 1995, Mr. Kristol led the Project for the Republican Future, where he helped shape the strategy that produced the 1994 Republican congressional victory.
Prior to that, Mr. Kristol served as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle during the Bush administration and to Secretary of Education William Bennett under President Reagan. Before coming to Washington in 1985, Mr. Kristol taught politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Kristol recently co-authored The New York Times bestseller The War Over Iraq: America's Mission and Saddam's Tyranny.