Iraq War

Al Qaeda-inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi Army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, some 155 miles north of Baghdad, in this file photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo, File)

The Iraq War was a bipartisan disaster

Gene Healy · June 23, 2014 9:43 pm

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Has American fracking doomed Iraq?

Arthur Herman · June 20, 2014 6:47 pm

President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media about the situation in Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. In the strongest sign yet of U.S. doubts about Iraq's stability, the Obama administration is weighing whether to press the Shiite prime minister in Baghdad to step down in a last-ditch effort to prevent disgruntled Sunnis from igniting a full-scale civil war. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

5 facts about the new U.S. mission in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 20, 2014 12:55 pm

President Obama announced plans to send a team of U.S. military advisers to Iraq to try help the country's security forces beat back an al Qaeda-inspired insurgency gaining ground across large swaths of the country. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Obama: U.S. will send small team of military advisers to Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 19, 2014 6:37 pm

This undated file Image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Iraq is broken, we can’t fix it and there’s no good reason to try

Jed Babbin · June 18, 2014 9:00 pm

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed (co-written with daughter Liz Cheney), the former vice president simply does not take into account the Bush administration's failures in Iraq. Reciting President Obama's own failures, Cheney writes: "Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many." (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

What should Iraq war advocates say about the current crisis?

Byron York · June 18, 2014 4:28 pm

President George H.W. Bush gestures during a news conference at the White House briefing room in Washington, Tuesday, April 17, 1991. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander)

No intervention in Iraqi civil war without congressional authorization

Terence Jeffrey · June 18, 2014 2:52 pm

Iraqi Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al Qaeda inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Baghdad's Sadr city, Iraq, Saturday, June 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

How the Obama administration hopes to regain Congress’ trust on Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 17, 2014 10:24 pm

An Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Army Spc. Justin R. Helton of Beaver, Ohio, upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del. on Thursday, June 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is smart foreign-policy advice

Gene Healy · June 16, 2014 10:27 pm

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, talks with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Capitol Hill in Washington in this July 18, 2013 file photo. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The foreign policy issue that split John McCain and Lindsey Graham

Susan Crabtree · June 16, 2014 5:59 pm

Iraqi army soldiers stand guard at Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Renewed fighting in Iraq leaves a bitter aftertaste

Thomas Sowell · June 16, 2014 4:51 pm

House Speaker John Boehner slammed President Obama Thursday morning for failing to respond to an offensive by Islamist militants in Iraq. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

GOP presses Obama: Urgent action needed in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 13, 2014 6:30 pm