Post-invasion Iraq

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This is a topic, with start date May 1, 2003 and end date unknownwarning.pngThe date “unknown” was not understood (support for dates is still experimental). .

Its theme(s) are Middle East, War.

Positions are shown reverse-chronologically, by their earliest opinion item.

Summary of positions for this topic

Iraqi government should crack down on Shiite militias (5 items)
Iraq Study Group's recommendations should be followed (45 items)
Iraqis should vote on troop pullout (2 items)
United States should increase troop levels (68 items)
United States should change its approach (6 items)
United States should fight more ruthlessly (12 items)
United States should negotiate with Syria (19 items)
United States should negotiate with Iran (34 items)
Coalition troops should pull out (192 items)
Iraq should be split up (28 items)

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Iraqi government should crack down on Shiite militias

For

Don't prejudge the surge by Jack Kelly (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2007-01-28) (view)

A Plausible Plan B by Charles Krauthammer (The Washington Post, 2007-01-19) (view)

Bush's Last Stand: Is president's new Iraq strategy too little, too late? by The Dallas Morning News editorial board (The Dallas Morning News, 2007-01-11) (view)

Against

Of Course the Iranians Are Adding Fuel to the Shiite Militias by Trey Ellis (The Huffington Post, 2007-02-11) (view)

There is no military solution for Iraq, only a political one by Jonathan Steele (The Guardian, 2007-01-12) (view)

Iraq Study Group's recommendations should be followed

For

Bipartisanship is good for both sides by Anne-Marie Slaughter (Los Angeles Times, 2007-08-09) (view)

Getting Out of Iraq by The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2007-07-15) (view)

It's time for Bush to get an Iraq policy that works by Trudy Rubin (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2007-07-15) (view)

Lesser evils and an exit strategy by The Boston Globe editorial board (The Boston Globe, 2007-07-10) (view)

A Path to Common Ground by James Baker (The Washington Post, 2007-04-05) (view)

Bush's baby steps by Joan Vennochi (The Boston Globe, 2007-03-04) (view)

Another way to interpret this report is 'Stay but don't screw up' by Niall Ferguson (The Daily Telegraph, 2006-12-10) (view)

A way out by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial board (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2006-12-08) (view)

Bush Listened, but Did He Hear? by Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post, 2006-12-08) (view)

Iraq report stresses need for change by Chicago Sun-Times editorial board (Chicago Sun-Times, 2006-12-07) (view)

Welcome Political Cover by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 2006-12-07) (view)

Against

Iraq: Go Deep or Get Out by Stephen Biddle (The Washington Post, 2007-07-11) (view)

The 'Quit Iraq' Caucus by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2007-07-11) (view)

Abandonment by Rich Lowry (National Review, 2007-07-10) (view)

For Iraqis, A Promise Is in Peril by Masrour Barzani (The Washington Post, 2006-12-20) (view)

In Baker's Blunder, A Chance For Bush by Charles Krauthammer (The Washington Post, 2006-12-15) (view)

Nothing left for lonely Bush except one more push by Gerard Baker (The Times, 2006-12-15) (view)

Throw the Iraq report in the trash by Max Boot (Los Angeles Times, 2006-12-13) (view)

Honor Killing by Bret Stephens (The Wall Street Journal, 2006-12-12) (view)

Foreign policy ingenues by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 2006-12-11) (view)

The Baker-Hamilton Report: A Prescription for Surrender by Newt Gingrich (Human Events, 2006-12-11) (view)

ISG must stand for, uh, Inane Guesswork Strategy by Mark Steyn (Chicago Sun-Times, 2006-12-10) (view)

No Way to Win a War by Eliot A. Cohen (The Wall Street Journal, 2006-12-10) (view)

Back to Your Studies by Reuel Marc Gerecht (The Weekly Standard, 2006-12-09) (view)

America's Honor by New York Post editorial board (New York Post, 2006-12-08) (view)

It's Up To Bush by Robert Kagan (The Weekly Standard, 2006-12-08) (view)

Asking for chaos by Frederick W. Kagan (New York Daily News, 2006-12-07) (view)

Frankly Incensed: Unwise Men Bear Gifts for Butchers by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2006-12-07) (view)

It's a war, not a buffet by Jonah Goldberg (Los Angeles Times, 2006-12-07) (view)

Paris' Peace Plan by John Podhoretz (New York Post, 2006-12-07) (view)

The Counsel of Cowards by New York Post editorial board (New York Post, 2006-12-07) (view)

The ISG Report: Still A Mystery by John Hinderaker (Power Line, 2006-12-07) (view)

Mixed

A Realistic Approach To Iraq by David Ignatius (The Washington Post, 2006-12-20) (view)

The Iraq report: Naive to the core by New Hampshire Union Leader editorial board (New Hampshire Union Leader, 2006-12-11) (view)

Meanwhile, Reality In Iraq by Jim Hoagland (The Washington Post, 2006-12-10) (view)

Presidential ingratitude by The Boston Globe editorial board (The Boston Globe, 2006-12-09) (view)

Two Cheers, One Boo for Baker-Hamilton by Human Events editorial board (Human Events, 2006-12-08) (view)

'It's not working' by Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial board (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006-12-07) (view)

Half Baked by National Review editorial board (National Review, 2006-12-07) (view)

The Iraq Muddle Group by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 2006-12-07) (view)

The Study Group Reports by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, 2006-12-07) (view)

What About the Grunts? by Phillip Carter (Slate, 2006-12-07) (view)

What now, Mr. President? by New York Daily News editorial board (New York Daily News, 2006-12-07) (view)

What they said... by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, 2006-12-07) (view)

Where to From Here? by Michael Young (Reason, 2006-12-07) (view)

Iraqis should vote on troop pullout

For

When Should the U.S. Withdraw? Ask the Iraqis. by Scott Turow (The Wall Street Journal, 2006-11-30) (view)

Iraq Was a Worthy Mistake by Jonah Goldberg (Los Angeles Times, 2006-10-19) (view)

United States should increase troop levels

For

Is Iraq turning into Yugoslavia? by Max Boot (Los Angeles Times, 2007-02-21) (view)

Iraq is no 'Nam by Helle Dale (The Washington Times, 2007-01-31) (view)

Baghdad Is Key by Stephen J. Hadley (The Washington Post, 2007-01-29) (view)

Betraying America by New York Post editorial board (New York Post, 2007-01-28) (view)

All We Are Saying... Is Give Petraeus a Chance by Frederick W. Kagan, William Kristol (The Weekly Standard, 2007-01-22) (view)

No better idea by Max Boot (Los Angeles Times, 2007-01-17) (view)

Are we doing enough? by Mona Charen (The Washington Times, 2007-01-15) (view)

A Skeptic's Case For the Surge by Michael O'Hanlon (The Washington Post, 2007-01-14) (view)

A Shift not a Surge by The Times editorial board (The Times, 2007-01-11) (view)

Noble effort our only alternative to awful defeat by John Podhoretz (New York Post, 2007-01-11) (view)

W's Last Chance by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2007-01-11) (view)

A Heavier Iraq 'Footprint' by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 2007-01-08) (view)

Fingers in the wind by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 2007-01-08) (view)

50,000 more US troops can save Iraq by John Keegan (The Daily Telegraph, 2007-01-03) (view)

Why We Need More Troops in Iraq by Joe Lieberman (The Washington Post, 2006-12-29) (view)

A case for additional troops by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 2006-12-15) (view)

It's Up To Bush by Robert Kagan (The Weekly Standard, 2006-12-08) (view)

More troops needed by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 2006-12-06) (view)

America's Moral Duty in Iraq by George F. Will (The Washington Post, 2006-12-04) (view)

We Can Put More Forces in Iraq... by Frederick W. Kagan (The Weekly Standard, 2006-11-23) (view)

Time for a Heavier Footprint by Frederick W. Kagan (The Weekly Standard, 2006-11-20) (view)

Bush's Iraq Legacy by Robert Kagan (The Weekly Standard, 2006-11-13) (view)

Doubling Down in Iraq by William J. Stuntz (The Weekly Standard, 2006-11-13) (view)

Bush must call for reinforcements in Iraq by Robert Kagan (Financial Times, 2006-11-12) (view)

Many dead ends in Iraq by Max Boot (Los Angeles Times, 2006-11-08) (view)

Against Half-Measures by Rich Lowry (National Review, 2006-11-07) (view)

More Troops, Please by Pete Hegseth (The Wall Street Journal, 2006-10-03) (view)

More Troops by Frederick W. Kagan (The Weekly Standard, 2006-09-27) (view)

Against

A flawed strategy in Iraq by Diana West (The Washington Times, 2007-03-23) (view)

A Plausible Plan B by Charles Krauthammer (The Washington Post, 2007-01-19) (view)

There is no military solution for Iraq, only a political one by Jonathan Steele (The Guardian, 2007-01-12) (view)

A Surge in American Forces is Unacceptable by John Murtha (The Huffington Post, 2007-01-11) (view)

Know when to fold 'em by William Odom (New York Daily News, 2007-01-11) (view)

A surge too far by San Francisco Chronicle editorial board (San Francisco Chronicle, 2007-01-10) (view)

All Roads to Iran by Jon Soltz (The Huffington Post, 2007-01-09) (view)

Escalation? It's Not His Decision to Make by Ted Kennedy (The Huffington Post, 2007-01-09) (view)

No more Middle East crusades by Dimitri K. Simes (Los Angeles Times, 2007-01-09) (view)

Stopping the surge by Scot Lehigh (The Boston Globe, 2007-01-09) (view)

Quagmire of the Vanities by Paul Krugman (The New York Times, 2007-01-08) (view)

One last push and that’s you finished in Iraq, Mr President by Simon Jenkins (The Times, 2007-01-07) (view)

Prelude To A Massacre by Mash (Daily Kos, 2007-01-07) (view)

Execution makes martyr of Hussein by Marvin Zonis (Chicago Tribune, 2007-01-03) (view)

Human Toll Of War: Out of the mess by Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial board (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007-01-03) (view)

Getting real in Iraq by Trudy Rubin (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2006-12-31) (view)

Joe Lieberman Just Doesn't Get It by Jon Soltz (The Huffington Post, 2006-12-29) (view)

White House Pushes for Troop Surge, Best Advice of Generals Be Damned by Arianna Huffington (The Huffington Post, 2006-12-27) (view)

When Resolve Turns Reckless by John Kerry (The Washington Post, 2006-12-24) (view)

A surge without power in Iraq by The Boston Globe editorial board (The Boston Globe, 2006-12-21) (view)

Harman to President Bush: Send More Troops to Iraq...NOT! by Jane Harman (The Huffington Post, 2006-12-21) (view)

A 'surge' to save Iraq? Sheer madness by Dan Simpson (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2006-12-20) (view)

A 'Surge' in Wasted Sacrifice by Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post, 2006-12-19) (view)

Iraq War: A 'broken' Army? by Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial board (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006-12-19) (view)

More Troops Is Not an Option by Trey Ellis (The Huffington Post, 2006-12-15) (view)

Latest disastrous plan: More GIs to Iraq by Andrew Greeley (Chicago Sun-Times, 2006-11-17) (view)

No More Troops by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2006-10-10) (view)

Are We Winning in Iraq? by Mackubin Thomas Owens (National Review, 2006-09-19) (view)

Mixed

In limbo on Iraq by Diana West (The Washington Times, 2007-01-26) (view)

Make Them Fight All of Us by Thomas Friedman (The New York Times, 2007-01-12) (view)

Bush's Last Stand: Is president's new Iraq strategy too little, too late? by The Dallas Morning News editorial board (The Dallas Morning News, 2007-01-11) (view)

The last way forward by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, 2007-01-11) (view)

A 'Surge' in Iraq? by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, 2007-01-07) (view)

Get it right, Mr. President by New York Daily News editorial board (New York Daily News, 2007-01-07) (view)

Making the Surge Work by David Brooks (The New York Times, 2007-01-07) (view)

The Perils of a Surge by George F. Will (New York Post, 2007-01-07) (view)

Surging into Iraq ... by Chicago Tribune editorial board (Chicago Tribune, 2007-01-05) (view)

Perilous path of troop surge by Trudy Rubin (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2006-12-20) (view)

Fighting to Win by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2006-12-18) (view)

Ten Months or Ten Years by Thomas Friedman (The New York Times, 2006-11-29) (view)

United States should change its approach

For

We Can Put More Forces in Iraq... by Frederick W. Kagan (The Weekly Standard, 2006-11-23) (view)

What Iraq Needs by Samir Sumaidaie (New York Post, 2006-08-28) (view)

A Plan to Hold Iraq Together by Joe Biden (The Washington Post, 2006-08-24) (view)

Meanwhile, in Baghdad by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 2006-08-16) (view)

Bush's Vietnam? by Rich Lowry (National Review, 2006-08-15) (view)

The generals' worry by The Boston Globe editorial board (The Boston Globe, 2006-08-05) (view)

United States should fight more ruthlessly

For

Out-thought by the enemy by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2007-06-01) (view)

Why Iraq's So Hard by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2007-05-14) (view)

Baghdad Blues by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2007-05-11) (view)

Mook's Spooked by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2007-02-15) (view)

W's Last Chance by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2007-01-11) (view)

Just call it the war of endurance by Victor Davis Hanson (Chicago Tribune, 2007-01-05) (view)

King David Returns by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2007-01-05) (view)

Fighting to Win by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2006-12-18) (view)

Can We Talk? by Andrew C. McCarthy (National Review, 2006-11-29) (view)

Arabian Nightmares by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2006-11-15) (view)

Kill Muqtada Now by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2006-10-26) (view)

Back To Baghdad by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2006-07-28) (view)

United States should negotiate with Syria

For

A Diplomatic Avenue by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, 2007-03-01) (view)

When Resolve Turns Reckless by John Kerry (The Washington Post, 2006-12-24) (view)

The madness of George by Joe Conason (Salon.com, 2006-12-01) (view)

U.S. should lead Iraq summit by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, 2006-11-21) (view)

Time for Bush to talk to Iran and Syria by Simon Tisdall (The Guardian, 2006-10-25) (view)

Time to Talk by Leslie H. Gelb (The Wall Street Journal, 2006-07-28) (view)

Against

Talk is Cheap by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2007-01-17) (view)

The danger of engaging with the enemy by Jeff Jacoby (The Boston Globe, 2006-12-06) (view)

This Is Realism? by Charles Krauthammer (The Washington Post, 2006-12-01) (view)

Talking to the rogues by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 2006-11-30) (view)

Can We Talk? by Andrew C. McCarthy (National Review, 2006-11-29) (view)

Iran and Syria aren't our friends in Iraq by Max Boot (Los Angeles Times, 2006-11-29) (view)

From Beirut to Baghdad by Christopher Hitchens (Slate, 2006-11-27) (view)

So how does 'engaging with Syria' look now? by Michael Young (The Times, 2006-11-23) (view)

Dealing From Weakness by New York Post editorial board (New York Post, 2006-11-22) (view)

Surrender as 'Realism' by Robert Kagan (The Weekly Standard, 2006-11-22) (view)

Iraq by Mona Charen (National Review, 2006-11-17) (view)

Mixed

Baker's Iraq Advice: Too High a Price by Peter Brookes (New York Post, 2006-12-04) (view)

What kind of rogue-state dialogue? by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 2006-11-22) (view)

United States should negotiate with Iran

For

The Wisdom In Talking by John Kerry (The Washington Post, 2008-05-24) (view)

Rethinking Iran by Samantha Power (Time, 2008-01-17) (view)

The Road Home by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 2007-07-08) (view)

A Diplomatic Avenue by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, 2007-03-01) (view)

Bullying Iran by The New York Times editorial board (The New York Times, 2007-02-01) (view)

Not-So-Strange Bedfellow by Thomas Friedman (The New York Times, 2007-01-31) (view)

Two tales suggest strategy in Iraq by Trudy Rubin (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2006-12-24) (view)

The madness of George by Joe Conason (Salon.com, 2006-12-01) (view)

Next move in Iraq? by Wesley Clark (USA Today, 2006-11-21) (view)

U.S. should lead Iraq summit by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, 2006-11-21) (view)

Time to talk to the bad guys by Anatol Lieven (International Herald Tribune, 2006-11-09) (view)

Time for Bush to talk to Iran and Syria by Simon Tisdall (The Guardian, 2006-10-25) (view)

Time to Talk by Leslie H. Gelb (The Wall Street Journal, 2006-07-28) (view)

Against

Get Tough On Iran by Investor's Business Daily editorial board (Investor's Business Daily, 2007-05-14) (view)

Talk is Cheap by Ralph Peters (New York Post, 2007-01-17) (view)

The curtain is closing by Victor Davis Hanson (Chicago Tribune, 2006-12-29) (view)

Just smile at Iran and wait, don't talk by Victor Davis Hanson (Chicago Tribune, 2006-12-15) (view)

The danger of engaging with the enemy by Jeff Jacoby (The Boston Globe, 2006-12-06) (view)

Realism and Iran by The Wall Street Journal editorial board (The Wall Street Journal, 2006-12-05) (view)

This Is Realism? by Charles Krauthammer (The Washington Post, 2006-12-01) (view)

Talking to the rogues by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 2006-11-30) (view)

To stabilize Iraq, isolate Iran's mullahs by Frank Gaffney (New York Daily News, 2006-11-30) (view)

Baker's Sellout Plan by Dick Morris (New York Post, 2006-11-29) (view)

Can We Talk? by Andrew C. McCarthy (National Review, 2006-11-29) (view)

Iran and Syria aren't our friends in Iraq by Max Boot (Los Angeles Times, 2006-11-29) (view)

From Beirut to Baghdad by Christopher Hitchens (Slate, 2006-11-27) (view)

The '39 parallel? by Dan Burton (The Washington Times, 2006-11-27) (view)

Surrender as 'Realism' by Robert Kagan (The Weekly Standard, 2006-11-22) (view)

War Has No 'Elegant Solutions' by Amir Taheri (New York Post, 2006-11-21) (view)

Iraq by Mona Charen (National Review, 2006-11-17) (view)

Mixed

Don't Count on Iran to Pick Up the Pieces by Kenneth Pollack (The New York Times, 2006-12-08) (view)

Baker's Iraq Advice: Too High a Price by Peter Brookes (New York Post, 2006-12-04) (view)

What kind of rogue-state dialogue? by The Washington Times editorial board (The Washington Times, 2006-11-22) (view)

Why Iran Wants to Talk by The Washington Post editorial board (The Washington Post, 2006-03-18) (view)

Coalition troops should pull out

For

Now That We’ve ‘Won,’ Let’s Come Home by Frank Rich (The New York Times, 2008-06-22) (view)

Everything His President Wants to Hear by Robert Scheer (The Huffington Post, 2008-04-09) (view)

Staying in Iraq for proxy war by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, 2008-04-09) (view)

The Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker Hearings and What the Surge in Fact Proves by John Murtha (The Huffington Post, 2008-04-08) (view)

Five years is long enough by Darcy Burner (The Seattle Times, 2008-03-25) (view)

Iraq, $5,000 Per Second? by Nicholas D. Kristof (The New York Times, 2008-03-23) (view)

Iraq: No light at the end of the tunnel by Carl Hiassen (The Miami Herald, 2008-03-23) (view)

A War We Must End by John Podesta, Ray Takeyh, Lawrence Korb (The Washington Post, 2008-02-26) (view)

Unfinished Debate on Iraq by The New York Times editorial board (