The Iraq Study Group has issued many specific recommendations, but the options boil down to a maddeningly limited range: pull out or send more troops to do democracy-building and, either way, "engage" the hostile regimes in Iran and Syria. Missing from the list is the one option our self-defense demands: a war to defeat the enemy. If you think we've already tried this option and failed, think again. Washington's campaign in Iraq looks nothing like the war necessary for our self-defense.
What does such a war look like?
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An option seldom mentioned: change the rules of engagement.
If we'd just fight the war like a war and not tiptoe around as if we're afraid of who we might offend then we would have won already.
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