Iraq

Look at late-breaking news articles about Iraq

Leading Brookings experts review the details of US Iraq strategy, assess if it will work or should be modified, determine how to best measure success or failure, explore what would be the consequences of that failure, and consider alternative options.

Read some provocative articles analyzing Iraq

“The US got rid of one Saddam and replaced him with 50″: An article on the politics of the local in Iraq.
Juan Cole on the top 10 myths about Iraq in 2007.
Fred Kaplan on six months that could change Iraq: Three post-surge scenarios.
A tall order for a Marine: Divining how to treat the ally who tried to kill you in Anbar Province.
Some US soldiers have spent so much time in Iraq, it feels like home.
An interview with George McGovern on Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now.
From Mother Jones, a special issue on The Moral Dilemma of Leaving Iraq: Interviews with more than 50 experts, from General Petraeus’ advisers to antiwar activists.
Ask the Iraqis: Lawrence Wright on how the will of the people has been clear from the beginning.
Stagecraft, not statecraft Dennis Ross diagnoses Bush’s failure in Iraq.
In Iraq Forever: Despite the Bush administration’s party line, construction of permanent U.S. bases along with long-term plans for troop presence continue apace.
John Judis on Bush’s neo- imperialist war: Our Iraqi occupation not only rejects American foreign policy since Wilson, it’s a throwback to the great power imperialism that led to World War I.
From The American Interest: Barry Posen on foreign policy after George W. Bush: The case for restraint (and a response by Francis Fukuyama).