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April 22, 2013 11:27 AM Krauthammer Was Very, Very Wrong

It’s now been exactly a decade since Charles Krauthammer told us that Hans Blix had five months to find weapons. He found nothing. We’ve had five weeks. Come back to me in five months. If we haven’t found any, we...

By Henry Farrell

March 20, 2013 12:00 PM The Villains of Iraq

Okay, let's talk blame for the Iraq War. Matt Yglasias, in a smart post, says: The main not-totally-obvious thing I have to say about this is that the underrated villains in this drama are the leading Democratic Party politicians of...

By Jonathan Bernstein

March 20, 2013 11:18 AM Mistakes, Excuses and Painful Lessons From the Iraq War

I supported the Iraq War, and I’m sorry. I have my excuses, of course. I was a college student, young and dumb. I thought that if U.S. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell and former President...

By Ezra Klein

March 13, 2012 8:30 AM Did George W. Bush Persuade the Public on the Iraq War?

Ezra Klein’s new piece on presidential persuasion is stimulating a lot of debate.  I’ll have more to say.  But let me make one small point in response to Kevin Drum’s critique.  Drum writes: I also think that Ezra doesn’t really...

By John Sides

November 01, 2011 10:45 AM Recalling Moynihan’s Wisdom When Analyzing Iraq and Iran

The great scholar-senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan predicted correctly that ethnicity was too powerful a centrifugal force for even the Soviet Union to contain. Similar perspicacity is nowhere in evidence in all the recent predictions about the emergence of an Iran-Iraq...

By Keith Humphreys