Gareth Porter and Lawrence Korb, talking with Paul Jay shortly after Joe Biden’s speech at the DNC the other day, analyze Obama’s pick of Joe Biden as his running mate as positioning the Obama-Biden ticket to the right of John McCain.
August 29, 2008 – about 15 minutes
Panel discussion with Gareth Porter and Lawrence KorbGareth Porter is a historian and investigative journalist on US foreign and military policy analyst. He writes regularly for Inter Press Service on US policy towards Iraq and Iran. Author of four books, the latest of which is Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam.
Lawrence J. Korb is the Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Adviser to the Center for Defense Information. Korb served an advisor to the Reagan-Bush election committee in 1980 and was then appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and Logistics) from 1981 to 1985. In that position, he administered about seventy percent of the Defense budget. For his service he was awarded the Department of Defense’s medal for Distinguished Public Service.
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