Just days after U.S. forces withdrew from Iraq, a series of attacks in Baghdad have raised doubts about the security of the country, while political upheaval threatens to undermine its government. AEI’s vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, Danielle Pletka, shared some questions with U.S. Senator John McCain.

The delusion that one can settle our little disagreements with the Islamic Republic, if only the right people sit around the right conference table, has seized every administration since Carter.

A review of Mike Tucker's Among Warriors in Iraq.

Was that tough-on-Iran-and-Syria talk just for show?

Taking hostages is just standard operating procedure for Iran.

Despite the cheery words from Foggy Bottom and the eager appeasement from Capitol Hill, the Iranian regime is at war with us.

The cost of corruption goes beyond money. Corruption has done almost as much to hobble Iraq's reconstruction as the insurgency.

Ansar al-Sunna's militant Salafi ideology suggests that co-option may not mitigateits threat in Iraq.