Report
7 October 2008
Throughout this campaign Senator McCain has failed to lay out concrete plans on some of the most important national security issues before the U.S. McCain has either adopted an incoherent approach, such as with Iran, where he will attack his opponent’s position in one sentence and then agree with it in the next, or replaced policy proposals with empty platitudes about “not surrendering” and achieving “victory” in reference to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Report
2 October 2008
This week General McKiernan, the top commander in Afghanistan, and General David Petraeus made an obvious point: “Afghanistan is not Iraq.” Both insisted that the challenges in Afghanistan are very different than the ones in Iraq and therefore require a very different strategy and approach.
News
Washington Post 27 August 2008
Report
21 August 2008
In his last days commanding U.S. forces in Iraq, General Petraeus issued words of caution – the security gains that had been achieved were “tenuous.” The increase in U.S. forces played an important role in creating the decrease in violence, but during this time almost no progress has been made on political reconciliation.
News
Editor and Publisher 24 July 2008
Report
23 July 2008
Yesterday in an interview with CBS News, McCain attacked Obama for not understanding the history of the surge. Yet McCain’s own explanation of the surge’s history was completely wrong.
Report
9 January 2008
Changes in military tactics can lead to short term gains, but only a comprehensive political strategy to bring Iraq’s warring factions together can lead to a permanent solution to the conflict. One year since the President announced the “surge,” it remains clear that he has no such strategy.
Report
1 November 2007
Two months after General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker testified before Congress, the President has still not articulated a clear strategy or explained why the U.S. continues to have approximately 165,000 troops in Iraq.
Report
4 September 2007
General Petraeus and the Administration have selectively emphasized certain statistics to support their case that the "surge" is working and violence is down.
Report
23 August 2007
The National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq shows that none of the goals outlined by the President in January are not being met.
