Drilldown: Opinions

'

• 'See No Progress'

A

• A more realistic timetable for withdrawal
• A Plan for Iraq
• A Plan to Hold Iraq Together
• A road map out of Iraq
• A War We Just Might Win
• A War We Must End
• Abandoning Iraq
• Abandonment
• Active Appeasement
• After 9 years, time for troops to leave Iraq
• Al Qaeda on the Run
• Al Qaeda's Quagmire
• America and Britain should quit Iraq as soon as possible
• An Exit to Disaster
• Another Thousand Lives
• Anti-war, Pro-democracy
• Antiwar Wackadoos Are Winning
• Are Bush's critics right?
• As March 20 turns over, a bit of hope for better times in Iraq

‘

• ‘Inspiring Progress’ on Iraq?
• ‘Stuck on Lost’

“

• “Civil War” Doesn't Mean It’s Over

B

• Bad timing on Iraq
• Barack's Iraq Attack
• Bring the troops home
• Bring them home
• Britain leaves Iraq in shame. The US won't go so quietly
• Bush clings to a lost cause in Iraq
• Bush is right: Fight today, or occupy forever
• Bush must call for reinforcements in Iraq
• Bush won't end Iraq war on his own
• Bush's Iraq Legacy
• Bush's refusal to see his war isn't working puts American security at risk

C

• Capitulation and 'spillover'
• Change That Matters
• Civil War? What Civil War?
• Concluding the Terrible Mistake We Made in Iraq
• Confessions of a 'Defeatocrat'
• Congress Must Act On Iraq
• Congress vs. commander in chief
• Conscience and the War
• Cut and Lose

D

• Defeat at Any Price
• Defeat in Iraq
• Defeat on the homefront
• Democrats Dug In For Retreat
• Democrats' So-Called Leaders are Not Leading on Iraq
• Democrats: Don't cave on ending war in Iraq
• Dems jump gun on Iraq
• Deserting Petraeus
• Direction? Out
• Don't Abandon the Iraqis
• Don't Abandon Us
• Don't back down now
• Don't Give Up On Iraq Yet
• Doubling Down in Iraq
• Dying for an Iraq That Isn't

E

• Eat Crow, Iraq War Skeptics
• End the occupation
• Escalation? It's Not His Decision to Make
• Even the British are leaving Iraq
• Everything His President Wants to Hear

F

• Failure of will: Congress lacks the courage to end a pointless war
• Fighting to Win (Kagan)
• Five years is long enough
• From Suez to Iraq: how to weaken the will of the West

G

• General Petraeus Needs Time
• George Aiken without the intellectual flair
• Getting Beyond Stalemate to Win a War
• Give the 'Surge' a Chance
• Give voters a choice about war
• Good Sense on Iraq
• Grand Delusion

H

• Harman to President Bush: Send More Troops to Iraq...NOT!

• How paranoid little Napoleons took over America
• How to Get Out of Iraq

I

• If we had known then...
• In Gaza's Shadow
• Iran on the Horizon
• Iran's Proxy War
• Iraq
• Iraq and Its Costs
• Iraq is broke beyond repair
• Iraq Is the Central Front
• Iraq's New Secret Police
• Iraq, $5,000 Per Second?
• Iraq: A Civil War We Can Still Win
• Iraq: A Mess, But So What?
• Iraq: Five Years Hence
• Iraq: Good News Is No News
• Iraq: No light at the end of the tunnel
• Iraq: Still Worth Some Waiting
• Iraq: The Elephant in the Room
• Iraq: The Real Cost of War Can't Be Ignored
• Iraqi Mirages
• It's about time: After four years, Bush has not made case for staying
• It's inexcusable for Congress not to fund troops in Iraq
• It’s time for Bush and Blair to try plan B – the humility option

K

• Kill Muqtada Now

L

• Last gasps in Iraq
• Leaving Iraq, Honorably
• Leaving Iraq: about time
• Let's get everybody's troops out of everywhere
• Looking Forward in Iraq
• Losing sleep over Iraq

M

• Majority of Iraqis Approve of Attacks on US Troops, Why Are We Still There?
• Make the Election About Iraq
• Making the last mistake in Iraq
• Many dead ends in Iraq
• Mission Not Yet Accomplished
• Moving Forward in Iraq
• Mr. Obama on Iraq

N

• Next move in Iraq?
• No Surrender
• No Third Way in Iraq
• Not so willing: Britain, Denmark show the way on Iraq
• Now That We’ve ‘Won,’ Let’s Come Home

O

• Obama recalibrates on Iraq, and that's as it should be
• Of Senators and Soldiers
• On Iraq, a State of Denial
• One Choice in Iraq
• Our troops have earned more time
• Out of Iraq in '08

P

• Party of Surrender
• Petraeus' Victory
• Plan B

Q

• Quitting a worthy fight would be a great mistake

R

• Realism demands U.S. get out now
• Reality Check for the Antiwar Crowd
• Reinforce Baghdad
• Remember Iraq
• Reopen talks to keep U.S. force in Iraq
• Republican Retreat
• Resist the urge to leave Iraq
• Resolute redux
• Richard Lugar, Meet David Kilcullen
• Running from Iraq

S

• Same Product, New Package
• Senator Warner's Bad Withdrawal Symptoms
• Send more troops: Iraq must be secured
• Six years on: The struggle continues
• Staying in Iraq for proxy war
• Staying the wrong course in Iraq
• Staying to Help in Iraq
• Support for Bush's war in Iraq is crumbling fast
• Support the Troops: Bring Them Home
• Support the troops: See the mission through
• Surge's success holds chance to seize the moment in Iraq
• Surrender as 'Realism'

• Switch the fight to Afghanistan

T

• Telling it right
• Ten Months or Ten Years
• The '39 parallel?
• The 'Benchmark' Excuse
• The 'Blame The Iraqis' Gambit
• The 'Quit Iraq' Caucus
• The Arithmetic of Failure
• The Best Way To Support Our Troops
• The case for staying on
• The Choice on Iraq
• The Clock is Ticking, Mr. President
• The consequences of failure in Iraq
• The Consequences of Failure in Iraq (Gerecht)
• The consequences of quitting Iraq
• The dubious 'civil war' option
• The fantasy is over, we must partition Iraq and get out now
• The Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker Hearings and What the Surge in Fact Proves
• The genocide-ocrats?
• The good war: A double standard for Afghanistan
• The Iraq war is already lost
• The Iraqi Upturn
• The Least Immoral Choice
• The Left's Iraq Muddle
• The misleading Vietnam analogy
• The Only Real Option: Leave Iraq Now
• The price of occupation
• The Real Disaster
• The Right Troops in the Right Places
• The Road Home
• The Senate: chamber of shame
• The surge -- and a pause
• The surge can work, but it needs time
• The Surge Has Failed; No Residual Troops
• The Surge Worked
• The Surrender Lobby
• The Texas Strategy
• The ticking clock
• The Time Is Now
• The Truth on Iraq
• The wrong way home
• They wait for us to run again
• This is not our fight
• Time and Politics
• Time for Action -- Not Rhetoric -- In Iraq
• Time for Plan B
• Time to Say Enough of Bush's War
• To the Brink
• Tolerable or Awful: The Roads Left in Iraq
• Troop cuts will jeopardise Basra's progress

U

• U.S. must prove it's a staying power
• U.S. should take advantage of improved security in Iraq to withdraw
• Unfinished Debate on Iraq
• Unifying Iraq

V

• Victory Is Not an Option

W

• War Has No 'Elegant Solutions'
• War In Context
• Warm and fuzzy talk is a weak defense against terrorists
• We've Lost. Here's How To Handle It.
• What I Saw in Iraq
• What Iraq Needs
• When will Bush admit the obvious about Iraq?
• Which Is 'The Real War'?
• White flag of surrender?
• Who lost Iraq?
• Why it isn't yet time for U.S. to leave Iraq
• Why the Dems Should Go for It
• Why we must never abandon this historic struggle in Iraq
• Winning in Iraq
• Winning on Offense
• Winning One Battle, Fighting the Next
• Wishful Thinking on Iraq
• Wrong on Timetables

Y

• Yes, Iraq is deeply troubling, but let's not talk ourselves into defeat...