Iraq

Publication Date: 2007/06/17

Publication / Source: The Washington Post

Author: Steve Simon and Ray Takeyh

Steve Simon and Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellows at the Council on Foreign Relations, propose several ways that the United States can minimize the consequences of its failed endeavor in Iraq.

Publication Date: 2005/05/25

Publication / Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

Author: Lawrence Korb

Lawrence Korb, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and the Center for Defense Information, argues that General David Petraeus' previous willingness to offer misleading assessments on Iraq may rear itself again when he reports to the President in September.

Publication Date: June, 2007

Publication / Source: Center for New American Security

Author: James N. Miller and Shawn W. Brimley

The inaugural report from the Center for a New American Strategy calls for a massive reduction in US combat forces in Iraq while refocusing on counter terrorism efforts. It advocates a four-fold increase in the US’s ability to train and advise the fledgling Iraqi Security and Police Forces, and calls for broader diplomatic engagement with Iraq’s neighbors.

Publication Date: 2007/06/25

Publication / Source: Center for American Progress

Author: Brian Katulis, Lawrence J. Korb, Peter Juul

Building off their groundbreaking 2005 report “Strategic Redeployment”, CAP offers an updated analysis of the fractured situation in Iraq and advocates a complete disengagement from training any further Iraqi Security and Police Forces. In addition, it calls for an almost complete US troop withdrawal, outlines a comprehensive framework for stabilizing Iraq (including a “diplomatic surge” and establishing regional economic linkages), and a plan for refocusing counter-terrorism efforts so they can be more effective.

Publication Date: 2007/05/03

Publication / Source: Council on Foreign Relations

Author: Robert S. Litwak and Michael Rubin

A discussion between director of international studies at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Center and Michael Rubin, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and editor of the Middle East Quarterly, debate whether regime change in Iran should be part of U.S. foreign policy.

Publication Date: 2007/04/25

Publication / Source: Poltico.com

Author: Derek Chollet and Julianne Smith

Why President Bush should take a page out of FDR's playbook and give Democrats the difficult mission of garnering European support for Iraq.

Publication Date: 6.3.07

Publication / Source: Washington Post

Author: Robert Kagan

Insight into how both sides of the aisle may be using the "blame game" to distance themselves politically from the mess in Iraq.

Publication Date: 2007/04/24

Publication / Source: The Guardian

Author: Daniel Levy

What can forty years of Israeli occupation teach us about America's four years in Iraq?

Publication Date: 2007/04/26

Publication / Source: The Washington Post

Author: Joseph Lieberman

Last week a series of coordinated suicide bombings killed more than 170 people. The victims were not soldiers or government officials but civilians -- innocent men, women and children indiscriminately murdered on their way home from work and school. If such an atrocity had been perpetrated in the United States, Europe or Israel, our response would surely have been anger at the fanatics responsible and resolve not to surrender to their barbarism. Unfortunately, because this slaughter took place in Baghdad, the carnage was seized upon as the latest talking point by advocates of withdrawal here in Washington.

Publication Date: 2007/04/24

Publication / Source: The Washington Times

Author: Michael O\'Hanlon

In its 230 years of independence, the United States has faced a wide range of military opponents. We started of course with the British; the North fought the slave-holding South in the Civil War; we fought native Americans as well as the Mexicans and Spanish during other parts of the 19th century; we opposed Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany in World War I and Adolf Hitler as well as the Japanese in World War II; during the Cold War we waged war against North Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese communists. Against this historical backdrop, two facts stand out about our collection of enemies in Iraq, with a particular focus on the ex-Ba'athists and the terrorists who produced the bulk of the violence over the conflict's first three years. First, they are a small group relative to the population within which they are found. And second, even by the standards of our nation's past enemies, they are a despicable lot.