How to Save Iraq

This is the best, or the least bad, solution to the current crisis. By: Zalmay Khalilzad and Kenneth M. Pollack The most important thing to understand about Iraq today is also the hardest. The country has fallen once more into civil war, a recurrence of the civil war of 2006-2008. In 2007-2008, the United States committed tremendous military and economic …

Get Ready for Kurdish Independence

By: Zalmay Khalilzad WASHINGTON — In the coming weeks, Iraq’s leaders must make existential decisions. If they cannot form a unity government led by a new prime minister and motivate Sunni moderates and tribes to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Iraq is likely to disintegrate. If the central government fails to grant satisfactory concessions to Sunnis and …