Iraq Commentary

There were a number of interesting op-eds on Iraq in the papers today. While laying out his case for withdrawal, John Murtha takes the fight to the Republican attack-machine. John Kerry does a little Monday morning quarterbacking in an interview with Bob Woodward about how he, if he was President, would have conducted foreign policy between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraqi. Dennis Ross, a scholar and Middle East diplomat under Presidents Bush 41 and Clinton, lays out his plan for Iraq. And Phillip Carter, who recently returned from Iraq after serving with the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, talks about smarter ways to conduct counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq. In doing so, he calls upon the words of T.E. Lawrence: “Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.”