Drilldown: Opinions

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• 'See No Progress'

A

• A Plan to Hold Iraq Together
• A war the Pentagon doesn’t want
• A War We Just Might Win
• Abandoning Iraq
• Abandonment
• Action in Syria about saving face
• Active Appeasement
• Al Qaeda on the Run
• Al Qaeda's Quagmire
• America Needs to Stay Out of Syria
• An Accidental War
• An Exit to Disaster
• Are Bush's critics right?
• As March 20 turns over, a bit of hope for better times in Iraq

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• ‘Stuck on Lost’

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• “Civil War” Doesn't Mean It’s Over

B

• Bad timing on Iraq
• Barack's Iraq Attack
• Bush is right: Fight today, or occupy forever
• Bush must call for reinforcements in Iraq
• Bush's Iraq Legacy

C

• Capitulation and 'spillover'
• Change That Matters
• Congress vs. commander in chief
• Cut and Lose

D

• Defeat at Any Price
• Defeat in Iraq
• Defeat on the homefront
• Democrats Dug In For Retreat
• Dems jump gun on Iraq
• Deserting Petraeus
• 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

E

• Eat Crow, Iraq War Skeptics

F

• Fighting to Win (Kagan)
• 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
• Good Sense on Iraq
• Grand Delusion

H

• How paranoid little Napoleons took over America

I

• If we had known then...
• 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 the Central Front
• Iraq: A Mess, But So What?
• Iraq: Five Years Hence
• Iraq: Good News Is No News
• Iraq: Still Worth Some Waiting
• Iraqi Mirages
• It's inexcusable for Congress not to fund troops in Iraq

K

• Kill Muqtada Now

L

• Looking Forward in Iraq

M

• 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

O

• Obama is talking America into a war
• Obama recalibrates on Iraq, and that's as it should be
• Obama right to show restraint in Syria
• Obama wants Congress to hold him back, and it should
• Obama’s third war
• Obama’s valid caution on Syria
• Of Senators and Soldiers
• On Iraq, a State of Denial
• One Choice in Iraq
• Our troops have earned more time
• Outsiders have no tool to fix Syria

P

• Party of Surrender
• Petraeus' Victory
• Plan B

Q

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

R

• Reality Check for the Antiwar Crowd
• Red lines: Obama's costly bluster
• Reinforce Baghdad
• Reject Obama's request to attack Syria
• 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

• Senator Warner's Bad Withdrawal Symptoms
• Send more troops: Iraq must be secured
• Six years on: The struggle continues
• Stay out of Syria
• Staying the wrong course in Iraq
• Staying to Help in Iraq
• Strike Syria? Think again
• Support the troops: See the mission through
• Surge's success holds chance to seize the moment in Iraq
• Surrender as 'Realism'
• Syria Vote Is A Political Trap Republicans Can Avoid

• Syria: The Only Red Line Should Be To Stay Out
• Syria: the ugly choice ahead
• Syria: What Is the War Good For?

T

• Telling it right
• The '39 parallel?
• The 'Benchmark' Excuse
• The 'Blame The Iraqis' Gambit
• The 'Quit Iraq' Caucus
• The case for staying on
• The Choice on Iraq
• The compelling, but still unpersuasive, case for war on 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 genocide-ocrats?
• The good war: A double standard for Afghanistan
• The Left's Iraq Muddle
• The Right Troops in the Right Places
• The Senate: chamber of shame
• The surge -- and a pause
• The surge can work, but it needs time
• The Surge Worked
• The Surrender Lobby
• The Truth on Iraq
• The wrong way home
• They wait for us to run again
• Time and Politics
• Too late for Syria
• Troop cuts will jeopardise Basra's progress

U

• U.S. must prove it's a staying power
• Unifying Iraq
• Unserious Commander-in-Chief

V

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

W

• War Has No 'Elegant Solutions'
• War In Context
• War Party beats drums for action in Syria
• Warm and fuzzy talk is a weak defense against terrorists
• 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
• What I Saw in Iraq
• What Iraq Needs
• Which Is 'The Real War'?
• White flag of surrender?
• Who lost Iraq?
• Why America Is Saying 'No'
• Why it isn't yet time for U.S. to leave Iraq
• 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...