Iraq strategy review

Iraq strategy review

Patrick L. Clawson

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Years after the GulfWar, Saddam Hussein is still in power in Baghdad and still a thorn in America’s side. Meanwhile, U.S. policy toward Iraq is under fire from critics both foreign and domestic and has sparked debate from the halls of the State Department to the halls of Ohio State.
The Washington Institute’s Iraq Strategy Review offers a means of analyzing the options before the United States. It présents essays by Middle East scholars that assess different courses of action the United States could adopt toward Iraq:
- Andrew T. Parasiliti of the Middle East Institute: deterrence.
- Kenneth M. Pollack of the Washington Institute: narrow containment.
- Michael J. Eisenstadt of the Washington Institute: broad containment.
- Daniel L. Byman of the RAND Corporation and Kennetli Pollack: undermining or overthrowing Saddam.
- John Hillen of the Council on Foreign Relations: invading Iraq.
- Patrick L. Clawson of the Washington Institute: liberating the Iraqi people.
- Iraq Strategy Review is an invaluable tool for U.S. policymakers and others interested in America’s Iraq policy. It provides the crucial starting point for public debate over how the United States should handle Saddam’s Iraq.

Patrick L. Clawson is director for research at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and senior editor of Middle East Quarterly. Previously, he was a senior research professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University and editor of INSS’s flagship annual publication, Strategic Assessment.