Back From Iraq, Again Facing Fire

04/08/2008

Jim Frazier
NY Times
Published: April 8, 2008


Last fall, when Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker testified before Congress, the Op-Ed editors asked military and diplomatic experts to suggest questions they would like to ask America’s two top men in Iraq. Now, with General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker to appear again before the Senate today and the House tomorrow, the editors asked three of last year’s contributors to reflect on the changes of the last seven months — and to suggest new questions they would pose were they members of Congress.

Legislation’s Limits

The appeal to polarization may have lost its appeal.
By DOUGLAS J. FEITH, former under secretary of defense for policy and the author of "War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism"

A Plan on Iran

Can American policy in Iraq ever work unless it is within the framework of very different regional policies for the Middle East?
By MAX HASTINGS, military historian and the author of “Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45"

An Army at Risk

The United States today finds itself with too much war for too few warriors.
By ANDREW J. BACEVICH, professor of history and international relations at Boston University