The current administration plan foresees thousands of American civilians going into Iraq in 2012. Of the many problems with this plan, a few stand out. We have been hearing about "civilian surges" into Iraq and Afghanistan for years, yet the nondefense contributions to such surges have been limited, slow to arrive, and painful to maintain.

Mira Ricardel and Radek Sikorski The upcoming NATO summit will likely focus on NATO's ongoing military campaigns in the Balkans and...

U.S. diplomats are pressing for the victory of the candidate who presided over Iraq at its nadir.

The United States should protect the Iraqi electoral process from anyone seeking to manipulate its outcome.

Politics is the art of the possible. Liberalism will not be achieved through political martyrdom. Not believing in a loser is not the same as supporting Islamism.

When it came to justifying the limited goals of the military mission, Obama's speech was fundamentally dishonest. Such dishonesty is unfortunate, because the success of our intervention in Libya is critical.

The White House should abandon its ham-fisted and condescending Sunni strategy and begin treating Iraq like a unified, sovereign nation. Left alone, the Iraqis will do the right thing.

The George W. Bush administration did the right thing by disbanding the Iraqi army after the fall of Saddam.