What the Iraq Study Group should recommend

As we await the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, I urge you to look at Andrew McCarthy’s recommendations at NRO. McCarthy recommends that we concentrate on killing our enemies in Iraq — primarily al Qaeda — not on trying to prevent Sunnis and Shia from killing one another. Beyond that, he recommends that we focus on existing terror-supporting regimes. Not by enlisting their support for a “stable” Iraq but by trying to bring them down, which could include the use of our military.
McCarthy concludes:

If we

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