Drilldown: Opinions

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• 50,000 more US troops can save Iraq

A

• A 'Surge' in Iraq?
• A 'Surge' in Wasted Sacrifice
• A 'surge' to save Iraq? Sheer madness
• A case for additional troops
• A flawed strategy in Iraq
• A Heavier Iraq 'Footprint'
• A Plausible Plan B
• A Puerto Rico rescue would be progress, not a bailout
• A Shift not a Surge
• A Skeptic's Case For the Surge
• A Surge in American Forces is Unacceptable
• A surge too far
• A surge without power in Iraq
• A war the Pentagon doesn’t want
• A way out for Puerto Rico
• Action in Syria about saving face
• Against Half-Measures
• All Roads to Iran
• All We Are Saying... Is Give Petraeus a Chance
• America Needs to Stay Out of Syria
• America's Moral Duty in Iraq
• An Accidental War
• Are we doing enough?
• Are We Winning in Iraq?
• Arm and Shame
• Assad Crosses the Red Line

B

• Baghdad Is Key
• Bankruptcy can give Puerto Rico the help it needs
• Betraying America
• Blocking action on Syria makes an attack on Iran more likely
• Bomb Syria, Even if It Is Illegal
• Bush must call for reinforcements in Iraq
• Bush's Iraq Legacy
• Bush's Last Stand: Is president's new Iraq strategy too little, too late?

C

• Chapter 9 bankruptcy for Puerto Rico is a taxpayer bailout
• Closing time for Puerto Rico
• Congress can help ease Puerto Rico’s debt crisis
• Congress must act to give Puerto Rico relief
• Congress must help Puerto Rico by restructuring its debt burden
• Congress must rescue Puerto Rico
• Congress Needs to Throw Puerto Rico a Lifeline

D

• Don’t bail out Puerto Rico
• Don’t Intervene in Syria
• Don’t reward mismanagement
• Doubling Down in Iraq

E

• Escalation? It's Not His Decision to Make
• Execution makes martyr of Hussein

F

• Facts, not merely suspicions, must guide U.S. policy regarding Syria
• Fighting to Win
• Fingers in the wind
• Fixing Puerto Rico

G

• Get it right, Mr. President
• Getting real in Iraq
• Give hand to Puerto Rico to ease crisis
• Give Puerto Rico A Way Out Of Crushing Default
• Give Puerto Rico Its Chance to Thrive

H

• Harman to President Bush: Send More Troops to Iraq...NOT!
• Hit him hard
• How to handle Puerto Rico's debt crisis
• Human Toll Of War: Out of the mess

I

• Ill-Considered Advice on Syria
• In limbo on Iraq
• In Syria, U.S. inaction is better than intervention
• Iraq is no 'Nam
• Iraq War: A 'broken' Army?

• Is Iraq turning into Yugoslavia?
• It's Time to Intervene in Syria
• It's Up To Bush

J

• Joe Lieberman Just Doesn't Get It
• Just do it, Mr. President
• Just Say No to a Puerto Rico Bankruptcy

K

• Know when to fold 'em

L

• Latest disastrous plan: More GIs to Iraq

M

• Make Them Fight All of Us
• Making the Surge Work
• Many dead ends in Iraq
• Message from the ruins of Qusair
• More Troops
• More Troops Is Not an Option
• More troops needed
• More Troops, Please

N

• No bankruptcy for Puerto Rico
• No better idea
• No more Middle East crusades
• No More Troops
• Noble effort our only alternative to awful defeat

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, Syria and the Aspin Doctrine
• Obama’s thin red line
• Obama’s third war
• Obama’s valid caution on Syria
• On Syria, a weak strike is better than none
• One for the Wastebaskets
• One last push and that’s you finished in Iraq, Mr President
• Only Congress Can Rescue Puerto Rico
• Outsiders have no tool to fix Syria

P

• P.R. disaster
• Pain in the Assad
• Pentagon Wonks
• Perilous path of troop surge
• Pink line over Damascus
• Prelude To A Massacre
• Puerto Rico must remake its finances
• Puerto Rico Needs Debt Relief
• Puerto Rico needs reform, not bailout
• Puerto Rico on the Brink
• Puerto Rico’s Debt Portent
• Puerto Rico’s Pension Bailout

Q

• Quagmire of the Vanities
• Questioning Syrian Intervention

R

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

S

• Same Product, New Package
• Save Puerto Rico Before It Goes Broke
• Saving Puerto Rico
• Saving Puerto Rico From Itself
• Send More Troops
• Send more troops: Iraq must be secured
• Shamed into war?
• Showdown in Syria
• Stabilize Iraq
• Stay out of Syria

• Staying the wrong course in Iraq
• Stopping the surge
• Strike Syria? Think again
• Surging into Iraq ...
• 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

• Ten Months or Ten Years
• 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 (Gerecht)
• The costs of symbolism in Syria
• The Fighting Over the Fighting
• The last way forward
• The Least Immoral Choice
• The Non-Intervention War
• The Perils of a Surge
• The Puerto Rico Debt Bill Is a Good Start
• The Right Questions on Syria
• The Right Troops in the Right Places
• The Right Type of 'Surge'
• The risk of taking on Syria
• The Robert Taft Republicans Return
• The Smart Surge: Diplomacy
• The U.S. must act against Assad
• There are 300m Americans, but still not enough to rule the world
• There is no military solution for Iraq, only a political one
• This Ain’t Yogurt
• Time for a Heavier Footprint
• Time for consequences in Syria
• To Get a Truce, Be Ready to Escalate
• To save Puerto Rico from bankruptcy, face the facts
• Too late for Syria
• Tough love for Puerto Rico: Let the indebted island commonwealth declare bankruptcy

U

• U.S. policy on Syria still lacks coherence
• Unserious Commander-in-Chief

V

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

W

• W's Last Chance
• Waking up to Syria
• War Party beats drums for action in Syria
• War, What Is It Good For?
• We Can Put More Forces in Iraq...
• We can’t look away from Syria now
• 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 happens in Puerto Rico won’t stay there
• What to Do About Puerto Rico
• When Resolve Turns Reckless
• White House Pushes for Troop Surge, Best Advice of Generals Be Damned
• Why America Is Saying 'No'
• Why Have Democrats Abandoned Syria?
• Why We Need More Troops in Iraq
• With or Without Us