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  1. Iraq – “The Terrorist Army Marching on Baghdad” 6-13-14
  2. Iraq   “Turmoil in Iraq Spells Trouble for Oil Markets” 6-24-14
  3. Iraq – Daniel Henninger column, “While Obama Fiddles” 6-12-14
  4. Iraq “What America Thinks About Iraq” by Peggy Noonan   6-21-14
  5. Iraq LTE “We Have No Good Options for the Mess We Made in Iraq” 6-28-14
  6. Iraq – on Heninger’s 6-12-14 column (here): Iraq Crisis Evokes a Distant Mirror 6-14-14
  7. Iraq “A Plan to Save Iraq from ISIS and Iran” 6-17-14
  8. Iraq “Obama’s Iraq Feint” “Public maneuvering to dump Maliki…” 6-20-14
  9. Iraq LTE “Were 10 Years, $2 Trillion, 4,489 Dead Not Enough?” 6-21-14
  10. Iraq May Have Been Worth It for Some, but Not Others. LTE. 8-29-14
  11. Iraq, by Rand Paul, “America Shouldn’t Choose Sides in Iraq’s Civil War” 6-20-14
  12. Iraq, Germany. “Why Germany is Sending Weapons to Iraq.” By Frank-Walter Steinmeier 9-2-14
  13. Iraq, Kurds. “A Small Victory in Iraq.” [… but more U.S. forces will be needed.] 8-19-14
  14. Iraq. “How to Save Iraq and Honor American Sacrifice” by James Jones   8-15-14
  15. Iraq. “More War for Oil?” by Holman Jenkins, Jr. 8-13-14
  16. Iraq. “No Maliki, No More U.S. Excuses.” Stassel 8-15-14
  17. Iraq. “The Third Iraq War.” [Limited bombing won’t defeat the new terrorist caliphate.] 8-12-14
  18. Iraq. “Was Iraq Worth It? It Was for Me.” By Brian M. Welke. 8-21-14
  19. Iraq. “When the U.S. Abdicates, Disaster Usually Follows” by Philip Terzian 8-22-14
  20. Iraq. “The Jihadist March in Iraq” [Only the U.S. can prevent a humanitarian …disaster] 8-8-14
  21. Iraq: “Only America Can Prevent a Disaster in Iraq (L. Paul Bremer) 6-16-14
  22. Iraq: The Men Who Sealed Iraq’s Disaster With a Handshake [Obama & Maliki] 6-14-14 (Fouad Ajami]
  23. Iraq’s Chaldeans Still Exist – for Now. […genocide in the making.] by John Paul Kuriakuz. 8-25-14
  24. War by Any Other Name. [The President tries to avoid the ‘W’ word as he head back to Iraq.] 9-8-14
  25. Iraq. “Dick Cheney Is Still Right.” [Obama’s return to Iraq reveals how wrong he has been…] 9-10-14
  26. Iraq. “Who Really Lost Iraq? [Leon Panetta says the White House wanted all U.S. troops out in 2011.]   10-3-14
  27. Iraq. LTE. “Nation Building as Our DNA in Iraq.”
  28. Iraq. “Behind the U.S. Withdrawal From Iraq.” By James Franklin Jeffrey. [Negotiations were repeatedly disrupted by Obama White House staffer’s inaccurate public statements.] 11-3-14
  29. Iraq. LTE. “On America’s Intemperate and Costly Iraq Withdrawal.” 11-10-14
  30. Iraq. “Saving Iraq in the Post-Maliki Era.” By Qubad Talabani. [Trying to force unity through centralization will spilt the country and strengthen ISIS.] 12-9-14
  31. Iraq. “A United Iraq Is Pushing Back the Islamic State.” By Haider al-Abadi (prime minister of Iraq). [The new government welcomes Kurdish forces and Sunni tribesmen joining us in the fight.] 12-19-14
  32. Iraq. “The Dangerous Lie That ‘Bush Lied.” By Laurence H. Silberman. [Some journalists still peddle this canard as if it were fact. This is defamatory and could end up hurting the country.] 2-9-15
  33. Iraq. LTE. “Bush, the Truth and Iraq’s Weapons of mass Destruction.”   2-14-15
  34. Iraq. Iran Occupies Iraq. [As the U.S. leads from behind, Tehran creates a Shiite are of power.] 3-12-15
  35. Iraq. “The Friends We Left Stranded in Iraq.” By Mark Doss. [Because they risked their lives to aid U.S. troops, they now face death threats. Here is one of their stories.] 4-11-15
  36. Iraq. LTE. “Help Our Iraqi Helpers Now, While They’re Alive to Help.” 4-20-15
  37. Iraq. “The Assault on Christians, and Hope, in Iraq.” By Miles Windsor. [As the Islamic State campaign continues, despairing refugees look to start over elsewhere.] 5-15-15.
  38. Iraq. “The Fall of Ramadi.” [U.S. special forces succeed, while Iraqi troops are routed.] 5-18-15
  39. Iraq. “The Iraq Diversion.” [Liberals want to talk about anything but the current world disorder.] 5-19-15
  40. Iraq. “Islamic State Is Winning in Iraq.” By Norman Ricklefs et.al. [U.S.-led airstrikes are failing to deter the Islamist militants. Here’s what must be done to defeat them. 5-19-15
  41. Iraq. “Losing in Iraq Again.” [Pentagon spin can’t hide that the U.S. strategy is failing.] 5-21-15
  42. Iraq. “How to Prevent the Fall of Baghdad.” By Kevin Carroll. [Islamic State is likely to use the tactics that worked in Ramadi. The U.S. can do much to change the outcome.] 5-27-15
  43. Iraq. “My Iraqi Friend and the Obama Betrayal.” By Mario Loyola. [When Islamic State began its murderous attack on Ramadi, I thought of Ismail and worried for his safety.] 5-30-15
  44. Iraq. LTE. “We Don’t Have a Realistic Plan to Save Baghdad Again.” Dodd-Frank. 6-4-15
  45. Iraq. “Obama’s Latest Iraq Escalation.” [The fight against Islamic State needs more than 450 advisers.] 6-11-15
  46. Iraq. “The Iraqi Army Can’t Be Westernized.” By Robert H. Scales. [Arabs fight best in formations organized around familiar groups sharing more than the same national flag.] 6-26-15
  47. Iraq. “America’s Mission in Iraq Is Not Over.” By Glen G. Butler.   [Liberating Fallujah from Islamist terrorists today is no less important than it was in 2004.] 7-10-15
  48. Iraq. “We Have Heard the Iraqi People.” By Haider Al-Abadi. [Recent protests provide an opportunity to prove that peaceful reforms can prevail over violent extremism.] 9-9-15
  49. Iraq. “An Iraqi Democrat Who Inspired.” By Seth Lipsky. [Ahmad Chalabi, who died Tuesday, was a complex figure, but he fought for a free and democratic Iraq.] 11-4-15
  50. Iraq. “Stingy Bagdad Harms the ISIS Fight.” By Juleanna Glover. [The Peshmerga go unpaid as the Kurds are stiffed by the Iraqi government.] 12-21-15
  51. Iraq. “Iraq Isn’t Lost to Iran.” By Zalmay Khalilzad. [The ISIS onslaught has convinced many Iraqui of the need for better relations with the U.S.]  3-25-16
  52. Iraq. “Obama Hides His Iraq War.” By William McGurn. [The White House pretends that Marines fighting ISIS aren’t really there.] 4-12-16
  53. Iraq. “Obama’s Gradual Iraq War.” [New chaos in Baghdad shows the perils of his anti-ISIS strategy.] 5-2-16
  54. Iraq. “Another Iraq War Rehash.”  [A British report seems to share Trump’s views of Saddam Hussein.]  7-7-16
  55. Iraq. “More Ground Troops to Iraq.”  [The Pentagon wants 500 more soldiers for the Mosul offensive.]  9-23-16
  56. Iraq. “The Battle for Mosul So Far.”  [Coalition members are as wary of each other as they are of the jihadists.]  10-25-16
  57. Iraq. “The War That Dare Not Speak Its Name.”  by Wm. McGurn.  [For all his promises to get America out, Obama’s legacy is a renewed war in Iraq.]  11-29-16
  58. Iraq. “Iraq Is a Huge Opportunity for Trump.” By Bartle Bull. [Abandoned in 2011, the country had made a remarkable comeback. The U.S. can help it succeed.] 2-22-17
  59. Iraq. “’We Were Never Brothers’: Iraq’s Divisions May Be Irreconcilable.” By Aziz Ahmad. [Liberating Mosul won’t bring the country together, and the Kurds want complete separation.] 3-27-17
  60. Iraq. “After ISIS, the U.S. Military Could Help Keep Iraq Stable.” By James Jeffrey. [A limited troop presence would support a strategy aimed at containing Iranian aggression.] 4-17-17
  61. Iraq. “After Victory in Mosul.”   [How the U.S. and Iraq can prevent ISIS from rising again.]  7-12-17
  62. Iraq. “Iraq Declares Victory in Mosul, but the War Is Far From Over.”  By Seth G. Jones.  [ISIS emerged in the vacuum the U.S. created by withdrawing in 2011.  Don’t repeat that mistake.]  7-12-17
  63. Iraq. “After Islamic State, Is There Still an Iraq?”  by Michael Dempsey.  “Reconciliation is possible, but the country will have to overcome at least five major challenges.]  9-21-17
  64. Iraq. “Assault on the Kurds.”  [Defeat for the U.S. allies in northern Iraq is a victory of Iran.]  10-17-17
  65. Iraq. “15 Years Later, Iraq Is a Modest Success.” By Kari Zinsmeister. [It’s far from a utopia, but its democracy is evolving with coalitions across ethnic and religious lines.] 4-9-18
  66. Iraq.  “Will Iraq ‘Lean West’ or ‘Lean Iran’?”  by Bartle Bull and Douglas Ollivant.  [After Saturday’s votes are counted, the U.S. must remain engaged as the parties form a government.]  5-11-18
  67. Iraq.  “The U.S. Can Defuse Iraq’s Crisis.” By Kimberley Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan.  [[Help prevent a civil was among the Shiites by providing water, energy and medical assistance.]  9-13-18
  68. Iraq.  “Iraq Gets a Government – and It Was Worth the Wait.”  By Kenneth M. Pollack.  [The May election seemed to turn out badly, but the new leadership team is as good as it could have been.]  10-6-18
  69. Iraq.  “Iran-Backed Militias Step Up the battle in Iraq.”  By Jonathan Spyer.  [A novelist’s assassination, the harassment of a U.S. Army patrol and other signs of a growing threat.]  3-19-19
  70. Iraq.  “The Next Big Threat to Iraq’s Christians.”  By Cari Anderson.  [Iran-backed militias are keeping minority groups from returning home post-ISIS.]  4-12-19
  71. Iraq. “Israeli Jets Appear to Have Struck Iraq for the First Time Since 1981.” By Jonathan Spyer. [No nation has ye claimed the July air raids against two bases of a Shiite militia backed by Iran.] 8-2-19
  72. Iraq. “Iraq Is Committed To Mideast Stability.” By Barham Salih. [We’re inviting our neighbors to convene in Baghdad and hart a map for a regional alliance.] 9-24-18
  73. Iraq. “Iraqi Freedom Confronts Iranian Domination.” By Bilal Wahab. [The U.S. has turned toward realpolitik, but it has a strategic interest in backing demonstrators.] 11-12-19
  74. Iraq.  “At Long Last, Iraq Is Getting Back on Track.”  By Sam Gollab and Michael O’Hanlon.  [The costs have been high, but the country is doing better in many ways than it was before Saddam’s fall.]    8-6-20
  75. Iraq.  “As Afghanistan Reverts, Iraq Makes Steady Progress.”  By Paul Bremer and David C. Gompert.  [It has a capable army, a functioning representative government – and a need for continued U.S. help.]   8-21-21
  76. Iraq.  “Iraq Should Join the Abraham Accords.”  By Wisam al-Hardan.  [Full relations with Israel would help atone for the infamous act of driving out our Jewish population.]   9-25-21
  77. Iraq.  “Under Threat, an Iraqi Disowns His Call for Peace.”  By Joseph Braude.  [And the New York Times lends the false recantation a measure of credence.]   10-4-21
  78. Iraq.  “ISIS Stages a Comeback in Iraq.”  By Bernard-Henri Levy.  9-9-22
  79. Iraq.  “Two Decades Later, the Iraq War Is Hard to Defend.”  By Gerard Baker.  [Baghdad is no longer a threat, but it’s fallacious to claim invasion was the only means to that end.]   3-21-23
  80. Iraq.  “Twenty Years After the War, Iraq Needs U.S. Support.”  By Bilal Wahab.   [As a partner to Baghdad, Washington can establish a bulwark against malign influence in the Mideast.]   4-19-23
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 

Issue Headlines

Foreign Affairs. “Saudis Forge Ties With Iraq.” Wall Street Journal.  8-24-17 Page. A6

[“…Saudi authorities are courting Iraq’s Shiite leaders…opening direct flights and reopening crossings closed for decades on the heavily fortified, 600 mile border…The U.S. has been a broker in the rapproachement.  Soon after the start of his tenure in February, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to persuade his Saudi counterpart, Adef al-Jubeir, that the kingdom should carve out a bigger role for itself in Iraq…”]

 

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Foreign Affairs. “Saudis Forge Ties With Iraq.” Wall Street Journal.  8-24-17 Page. A6

[“…Saudi authorities are courting Iraq’s Shiite leaders…opening direct flights and reopening crossings closed for decades on the heavily fortified, 600 mile border…The U.S. has been a broker in the rapproachement.  Soon after the start of his tenure in February, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to persuade his Saudi counterpart, Adef al-Jubeir, that the kingdom should carve out a bigger role for itself in Iraq…”]

 

 

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