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- The Collapsing Myth of the Surge, Brian
Katulis
- Think Again: The Surge Goes On Forever
(and the Spinning Never Ends), Eric Alterman and George Zornick
- Declaration of Principles: Future United
States Commitment to Iraq, Lawrence J. Korb
- Pakistani Voters Are Not Yet on the Same
Page with U.S. Policymakers, Caroline Wadhams and Colin Cookman
- Kenya: Containing a Rebounding Crisis,
Gayle Smith
- An Inside Look at Pakistan, Caroline
Wadhams
- An Inside Look at Pakistan, Caroline
Wadhams
- The Shortfalls of the Surge, Brian
Katulis
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Brian Katulis, "The Collapsing Myth of the
Surge," Center for American
Progress, February 28, 2008
The easily foreseen consequences of conservatives' surge
“strategy” in
Iraq are now coming to pass. The disaffected Sunni groups that turned
against Al Qaeda in Iraq are now demanding their due—political
power for these “Awakening” groups commensurate with their
newfound
military clout and their belief that Sunnis should once again be the
dominant power in Iraq as they were under Saddam Hussein.
Click here
to read the full article.
Eric Alterman and George Zornick, "Think Again: The
Surge Goes On Forever (and the Spinning Never Ends)," Center for
American
Progress, February 28, 2008
With support for the war sagging, conservatives nervous about further
electoral losses, and a new progressive Congress threatening to create
tough withdrawal legislation, editorial pages across the country
labeled the surge strategy “last chance”
for Bush—a final “roll of the dice” to get Iraq
right. Sadly, one year
later, the dice have turned up snake eyes. But as is often the case in
Bush’s Washington, the house always wins. Despite failing on
almost every metric of success laid out in early 2007, the surge is
being labeled triumphant by the administration—and too often, the
media.
Click here
to read the full article.
Lawrence J. Korb, "Declaration of Principles: Future
United States Commitment to Iraq," Center for American
Progress, March 4, 2008
Testimony of Lawrence J. Korb, Senior Fellow, Center for American
Progress, Before the House Foreign Affairs Joint International
Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight Subcommittee and Middle East
and South Asia Subcommittee.
Click here
to read the full article.
Caroline Wadhams and Colin Cookman, "Pakistani Voters
Are Not Yet on the Same Page with U.S. Policymakers," Center for
American
Progress, March 4, 2008
Historic parliamentary elections in Pakistan have ushered in new
leadership, with U.S. policymakers now grappling with what the results
mean for counterterrorism efforts and U.S. security interests. The new
ruling coalition of the Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan
Muslim
League-N has already indicated that they want to shift Pakistan’s
terrorism strategy and begin a dialogue
with the militants. This proposed shift in strategy by Pakistan’s
new
leaders reflects the Pakistani people’s deep discontent with the
Bush
administration’s “war on terror,” and with President
Musharraf, who
they believe has too closely followed a U.S. national security agenda.
Click here
to read the full article.
Gayle
Smith, "Kenya: Containing a Rebounding Crisis," Center for American
Progress, February 28, 2008
The crisis in Kenya poses an enormous challenge to the United States,
not least because it has already triggered the killing of over 1000
Kenyans and displaced hundreds of thousands. Kenya has experienced
violence in the wake of every election in its modern history, and
though the recent violence is unprecedented, its roots extend well
beyond the feud between Mwai Kibaki’s Party of National Unity, or
PNU,
and Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement, or ODM. While the
level
of violence in the wake of December elections caught many off-guard, it
is a not entirely surprising manifestation of intertwined political,
economic, and ethnic divisions that have gone untended for decades.
Click here
to
read the full report.
P.J.
Crowley, "A Not So Secure Border Initiative: The Failed Virtual Fence
Project," Center for American Progress, February 28, 2008
The failure of the virtual fence was inevitable, a combination of an
unrealistic and heavily politicized policy imperative, untested
technology hastily fielded with little input from subject-matter
experts, a contractor that understands airplanes a lot better than
systems integration, and poor management by the federal
government’s
least experienced bureaucracy.
Click here
to
read the full article. Click here to read P.J. Crowley's
report "Safe at Home" detailing a new strategy to secure the U.S.
homeland.
See Progress
- Caroline
Wadhams recently returned from Pakistan where she and CAP
senior Fellow Brian Katulis served as election monitors for Pakistan's
parliamentary election. This footage was taken by Caroline during
her trip and features her narration and analysis of the election and
current challenges facing Pakistan. "I was pleasantly surprised by how
normal and calm everything felt there. Despite the international
headlines of a growing terrorist safe haven and deteriorating security,
Pakistanis are just going about their daily lives.
CNS News
- Brian Katulis discusses the surge strategy and warns that the
downward trends in violence may "just be a lull". He also discusses the
Center for American Progress proposal for a phased redeployment out of
Iraq over a 12- to 18-month period.
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A Conversation on Iraq with Senator
Jack Reed (D-RI)
March
13, 2008
Senator Jack Reed, a former
Army paratrooper,
has made eleven trips to
Iraq
,
the most of any Senator. At the Center for American Progress, Sen. Reed
will
discuss his most recent trip to
Iraq
which took place January 17-18, 2008. Sen. Reed traveled across
Iraq
with Special Operations forces and
visited
the cities of Fallujah, Balad, Baqubah,
Basra
,
and
Baghdad
,
where he met with Generals Petraeus and Odierno as well as Ambassador
Crocker
Book discussion:
No End in
Sight:
Iraq
's
Descent
into Chaos, featuring Charles Ferguson
March
13, 2008
Called "a clear,
temperate, and
devastating account of high-level arrogance and incompetence," by The
New York Times, No End in Sight is
the first book to chronicle the reasons
behind
Iraq
's
descent into guerilla war,
warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy.
Based on Charles Ferguson’s
Oscar-nominated documentary film.
Panel
Discussion: The Surge in Iraq
featuring Andrew Bacevich (Boston University), Michele
Flournoy (Center for New American Security), and Major General Robert
Scales (U.S. Army, ret.) March 20, 2008
On the 5th anniversary of the
Iraq
invasion,
the Center for American Progress will host a panel discussion to assess
the
impact of the surge of over 30,000 American troops which took place in
2007.
Panelists will analyze the impact of the surge on the security
situation in
Iraq
,
its effect on
Iraq
’s
political process and where the
United States
should go
from here. With the
drawdown of the surge forces already underway, panelists will also
analyze the impact
of the surge on
U.S.
military readiness and overall
U.S.
security interests in the
Middle East.
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