Drilldown: Opinions

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• '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 the Pentagon doesn’t want
• A War We Just Might Win
• A War We Must End
• Abandoning Iraq
• Abandonment
• Action in Syria about saving face
• 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
• America Needs to Stay Out of Syria
• An Accidental War
• An Exit to Disaster
• Another Thousand Lives
• Anti-war, Pro-democracy
• Antiwar Wackadoos Are Winning
• Are Bush's critics right?
• Arm and Shame
• As March 20 turns over, a bit of hope for better times in Iraq
• Assad Crosses the Red Line

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

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• “Civil War” Doesn't Mean It’s Over

B

• Bad timing on Iraq
• Barack's Iraq Attack
• Blocking action on Syria makes an attack on Iran more likely
• Bomb Syria, Even if It Is Illegal
• 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
• Don’t Intervene in Syria
• 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

• Facts, not merely suspicions, must guide U.S. policy regarding Syria
• 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!
• Hit him hard
• How paranoid little Napoleons took over America
• How to Get Out of Iraq

I

• If we had known then...
• Ill-Considered Advice on Syria
• In Gaza's Shadow
• In Syria, U.S. inaction is better than intervention
• 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 to Intervene in Syria
• It’s time for Bush and Blair to try plan B – the humility option

J

• Just do it, Mr. President

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
• Message from the ruins of Qusair
• 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 dithers, people die
• Obama is talking America into a war
• Obama puts politics over morals in abdicating presidential authority in Syria
• Obama recalibrates on Iraq, and that's as it should be
• 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, Syria and the Aspin Doctrine
• Obama’s thin red line
• Obama’s third war
• Obama’s valid caution on Syria
• Of Senators and Soldiers
• On Iraq, a State of Denial
• On Syria, a weak strike is better than none
• One Choice in Iraq
• Our troops have earned more time
• Out of Iraq in '08
• Outsiders have no tool to fix Syria

P

• Pain in the Assad
• Party of Surrender
• Petraeus' Victory
• Pink line over Damascus
• Plan B

Q

• Questioning Syrian Intervention
• Quitting a worthy fight would be a great mistake

R

• Realism demands U.S. get out now
• Reality Check for the Antiwar Crowd
• Red lines: Obama's costly bluster
• Reinforce a Norm in Syria
• Reinforce Baghdad
• Reject Obama's request to attack Syria
• 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
• Shamed into war?
• Showdown in Syria
• Six years on: The struggle continues
• Stay out of Syria
• Staying in Iraq for proxy war
• Staying the wrong course in Iraq
• Staying to Help in Iraq
• Strike Syria? Think again
• 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
• 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

• 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 compelling, but still unpersuasive, case for war on Syria
• The consequences of doing nothing in Syria
• The consequences of failure in Iraq
• The Consequences of Failure in Iraq (Gerecht)
• The consequences of quitting Iraq
• The costs of symbolism in Syria
• 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 Non-Intervention War
• The Only Real Option: Leave Iraq Now
• The price of occupation
• The Real Disaster
• The Right Questions on Syria
• The Right Troops in the Right Places
• The risk of taking on Syria
• The Road Home
• The Robert Taft Republicans Return
• 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