Drilldown: Opinions

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• 'It's not working'
• 'No-fly zone' is a euphemism for war. We'd be mad to try it

A

• A cloudy future in Libya for U.S.
• A moral obligation to intervene
• A no-fly zone could prevent a Libyan bloodbath
• A no-fly zone for Libya
• A no-fly zone over Libya deserves more consideration
• A Path to Common Ground
• A Realistic Approach To Iraq
• A war the Pentagon doesn’t want
• A war we don't need
• A way out
• Abandonment
• Action in Syria about saving face
• America Needs to Stay Out of Syria
• America's Honor
• An Accidental War
• An act of war without consent
• Another way to interpret this report is 'Stay but don't screw up'
• Arm and Shame
• Asking for chaos
• Assad Crosses the Red Line

B

• Back to Your Studies
• Be Ruthless or Stay Out
• Bipartisanship is good for both sides
• Blithely off to war
• Blocking action on Syria makes an attack on Iran more likely
• Bomb Syria, Even if It Is Illegal
• Bush Listened, but Did He Hear?
• Bush's baby steps

C

• Careful with Gadhafi
• Counter Gadhafi with coordinated response

D

• Darkness Falls
• David Cameron knows what to do about Libya, but does Barack Obama?
• Do-gooders in a land with no good guys
• Don’t Intervene in Syria

E

• Enforce a no-fly zone on Libya

F

• Facts, not merely suspicions, must guide U.S. policy regarding Syria
• Fiddling While Libya Burns
• For Iraqis, A Promise Is in Peril
• For now, US must resist call for no-fly zone over Libya
• Foreign policy ingenues
• Forging new ground with no-fly zone
• Frankly Incensed: Unwise Men Bear Gifts for Butchers
• Free Libya's cry

G

• Gaddafi has a long history as a killer — and must be stopped
• Getting Out of Iraq

H

• Half Baked
• Hit him hard
• Honor Killing

I

• If there's no mission, when’s it accomplished?
• Ill-Considered Advice on Syria
• In Baker's Blunder, A Chance For Bush
• In Search of Monsters
• In Syria, U.S. inaction is better than intervention
• Iraq report stresses need for change
• Iraq Then, Libya Now
• Iraq: Go Deep or Get Out
• ISG must stand for, uh, Inane Guesswork Strategy
• It's a war, not a buffet

• It's Not Too Late to Save Libya
• It's time for Bush to get an Iraq policy that works
• It's Time to Intervene in Syria
• It's Up To Bush

J

• Just do it, Mr. President

L

• Lesser evils and an exit strategy
• Libya: The illusion of force
• Libyan rebels to NATO: Get lost

M

• Meanwhile, Reality In Iraq
• Message from the ruins of Qusair
• Military action is costly, but not as much as apathy
• More bombs bursting in Libya. What for?

N

• No to a no-fly zone in Libya
• No Way to Win a War
• No-fly zone for Libya should not be ruled out
• No-fly zone in Libya holds more risks than rewards
• Nothing left for lonely Bush except one more push

O

• Obama dithers, people die
• Obama is talking America into a war
• Obama puts politics over morals in abdicating presidential authority in Syria
• Obama right to show restraint in Syria
• Obama should remember Rwanda as he weighs action in Syria
• Obama to take his Syrian case to Congress
• Obama wants Congress to hold him back, and it should
• Obama's loss for words on Syria
• Obama's Moment of Truth
• Obama, Syria and the Aspin Doctrine
• Obama’s thin red line
• Obama’s third war
• Obama’s valid caution on Syria
• On Libya, too many questions
• On Syria, a weak strike is better than none
• Outsiders have no tool to fix Syria

P

• Pain in the Assad
• Paris' Peace Plan
• Pink line over Damascus
• President Obama has been wisely cautious about military responses to Khadafy's bloody repression
• Presidential ingratitude
• Proceed with caution on military intervention in Libya

Q

• Questioning Syrian Intervention

R

• Red lines: Obama's costly bluster
• Reinforce a Norm in Syria
• Reject Obama's request to attack Syria

S

• Save Benghazi
• Shamed into war?
• Shift the course
• Showdown in Syria
• Squeezing Iraq
• Stay out of Syria
• Strike Syria? Think again
• Syria is bleeding to death and the west stands by
• Syria Is Not Iraq
• Syria Side Effects
• Syria strategy can’t rely solely on military might
• Syria Vote Is A Political Trap Republicans Can Avoid
• Syria will require more than cruise missiles
• Syria, a cause for bipartisanship
• Syria: The case for No
• Syria: The Only Red Line Should Be To Stay Out
• Syria: the ugly choice ahead

• Syria: What Is the War Good For?
• Syria: Where is the outrage?
• Syria’s al-Qaeda threat
• Syrian chemical attack demands precise strike
• Syrian war leaves no easy choices

T

• The 'Quit Iraq' Caucus
• The Baker-Hamilton Report: A Prescription for Surrender
• The Case Against Our Attack on Libya
• The Case for a No-Fly Zone
• The compelling, but still unpersuasive, case for war on Syria
• The consequences of doing nothing in Syria
• The costs of symbolism in Syria
• The Counsel of Cowards
• The haze of humanitarian imperialism
• The Iraq Muddle Group
• The Iraq report: Naive to the core
• The ISG Report: Still A Mystery
• The Libya Intervention
• The Libyan Job
• The Non-Intervention War
• The Right Questions on Syria
• The risk of taking on Syria
• The Robert Taft Republicans Return
• The Study Group Reports
• The Triumph of Evil
• The Two Vacuums
• The U.S. must act against Assad
• The U.S. Should Keep Out of Libya
• The United States watches as Moammar Gaddafi gains
• The west can't let Gaddafi destroy his people
• This Ain’t Yogurt
• Throw the Iraq report in the trash
• Time for consequences in Syria
• Time to muzzle Libya’s mad dog
• To Get a Truce, Be Ready to Escalate
• Too late for Syria
• Two Cheers, One Boo for Baker-Hamilton

U

• U.S. policy on Syria still lacks coherence
• U.S.'s Lose-Lose War Objective in Libya: A Tie
• Unserious Commander-in-Chief

V

• Volatile Syria: There are more reasons for the U.S. to stay out

W

• Waking up to Syria
• War Party beats drums for action in Syria
• War, What Is It Good For?
• Washington’s Options on Libya
• We can’t look away from Syria now
• We don't know what we're doing
• We Intervene
• We set Syria ablaze... Now we're hurling in explosives
• We’ve left it too late to save Syria – this conflict can never be won
• Welcome Political Cover
• What About the Grunts?
• What now, Mr. President?
• What they said...
• What's our plan?
• Where to From Here?
• Why America Is Saying 'No'
• Why Have Democrats Abandoned Syria?
• With or Without Us