Corine Hegland covers foreign policy for National Journal. She has won the Society of Professional Journalists' Public Service Award, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, and honorable mention for the White House Correspondents Association's Edgar A. Poe Award for her coverage of Guantanamo Bay. Raised in Ames, Iowa, she graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. She moved to Washington D.C. in 1998 to work for the policy office of the U.S. Department of Transportation; she joined the magazine in 2001.
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Despite near-universal dislike for the premise of the question, “Will Barack Obama Unleash Bob Gates?” (“It is precisely the steadiness and consistency that he has projected that has made, and will continue to make, Gates such an effective Secretary of Defense,” writes Dov Zakheim), we’ve had an interesting discussion this week about what should be on Secretary Gates's agenda, including (briefly summarized): a) End the supplemental funding circus. “Since we have been at war for more than seven years, there is no longer any excuse for sending up supplementals separately from… Read more
While commentators this week have disagreed over the expected speed with which President-elect Barack Obama will withdraw troops from Iraq, many of you have cited similar, competing pressures upon that withdrawal. On the side of speed, we have a) Obama's promise to withdraw major combat forces within 16 months; b) the Status of Forces Agreement, which, subject to a referendum in Iraq next year, requires U.S. troops to withdraw from “cities, villages and localities” by July 2009 and a complete withdrawal by the end of 2011; and c) the desire of many Iraqis and Americans to bring a rapid… Read more
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