Larry L. King Quotes
The biggest hawks have never been in service.
Larry L. King, Radio & Television Interviewer, Interview, CBS 60 Minutes, October 18, 1992
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The Germans saw this concern as partisan party politics and hysteria. See {594618}.
Four years later the President embarked on a nation-building effort in Iraq which was beset with many problems.
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He was objecting to the current crop of senior military officer who have little experience in fighting and much in academic, strategic and technical training. Many however see him as a dinosaur who does not realized the complex nature of the modern military missions. In general, we have won almost all of our fighting battles but often failed in our maintaining civil society, occupation, nation building, military procurement, preventing sexual assault of our own troops by our own soldiers, assuring mental health of our soldiers. Hackworth, detractors argue, wants to change what already works and ignore what does not.
Larry L. King was an American playwright, journalist, and novelist, best remembered for his 1978 Tony Award-nominated play The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, which became a long-running production on Broadway and was later turned into a feature film starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton.
