Posts by Ilan Goldenberg

Saying it Does Not Make it So - May 15, 2008

Is Beirut Belfast or Baghdad? - May 13, 2008

To Talk or Not to Talk - May 09, 2008

Stop Loss and the Surge - May 09, 2008

How to Help in Burma - May 07, 2008

Multilateral Like Bush - May 07, 2008

Research Project: Pentagon FOIA - May 07, 2008

National Security Politics - May 06, 2008

Iraq or Afghanistan - May 06, 2008

Baghdad Disneyland - May 05, 2008

Between a Ran and a Hard Place - May 05, 2008

My Head on the Sand - April 27, 2008

McCain's New Cold War - April 27, 2008

"Special Groups" - April 24, 2008

More on Petraeus - April 24, 2008

COIN in Afghanistan - April 23, 2008

Petraeus to CENTCOM - April 23, 2008

When Corn Kills Revisited - April 22, 2008

Nuclear War - April 22, 2008

Negotiating in Bad Faith - April 21, 2008

George and Charlie - April 17, 2008

The 100 Years Defense Makes No Sense - April 16, 2008

O'Hanlon... Again - April 16, 2008

Another Sign That Basra Was a Failure - April 16, 2008

Campaign Coverage Is Really Stupid - April 14, 2008

Resetting the Force - April 14, 2008

What's Good for the Goose - April 14, 2008

Attackerman - April 14, 2008

Washington Post: Page A4 - April 11, 2008

Had Enough - April 09, 2008

Tancredo... - April 09, 2008

Heads I win tails you lose - April 09, 2008

The Other Hearing - April 09, 2008

Chabot Just Asked One of the Dumbest Questions - April 09, 2008

Would Petraeus Help Advise a Withdrawal? - April 09, 2008

Security Forces - April 09, 2008

Choosing Shi'a - April 09, 2008

Petraeus Plays Along - April 09, 2008

I'm Impressed With Snyder - April 09, 2008

Unknown Republican Congressman - April 09, 2008

Readiness - April 09, 2008

Iraq is Hard - April 09, 2008

Skelton Gets the Broader Context - April 09, 2008

Al Qaeda and Iran - April 08, 2008

The Kid - April 08, 2008

Boxer on Iran.. - April 08, 2008

Feingold: It's not about winning or losing Iraq... - April 08, 2008

Conservative Gun Laws - April 08, 2008

Hypotheticals - April 08, 2008

Biden is asking Good Questions - April 08, 2008

The Crocker Strategy - April 08, 2008

Biden Presents the Costs - April 08, 2008

Evan Bayh Slaps Crocker - April 08, 2008

Saxby Chamblis... And AQI - April 08, 2008

Claire McCaskil is on the Money - April 08, 2008

Al Qaeda is Out, Iran is In - April 08, 2008

Is Political Reconciliation Happening? - April 08, 2008

McCain mixes up Sunni and Shi'a - April 08, 2008

I hate the six minute rule - April 08, 2008

Warner's Question - April 08, 2008

Pre-Testimony Thread - April 08, 2008

Standing Up - April 07, 2008

Answer the Question - April 07, 2008

In Answer to David's Question... Yes - April 05, 2008

Round and Round We Go - April 03, 2008

Don't Be Afraid to Talk About National Security - April 03, 2008

Context - April 03, 2008

Lieberman Mixes Up "Al Qaeda in Iran" - April 02, 2008

Self Promotion and Promotion of Others - April 02, 2008

Nothing to See Here - April 01, 2008

Monopoly of Force - March 30, 2008

The Cheney Theory - March 28, 2008

Admiral Mullen on Afghanistan and Iraq - March 28, 2008

Heads Up - March 28, 2008

What Does Petraeus Think? - March 27, 2008

Permanent Presence - March 26, 2008

McCain's Speech - March 26, 2008

Your Liberal Think Tanks.. - March 26, 2008

Potentially Very Bad - March 25, 2008

Sustainment - March 24, 2008

The Obama Doctrine - March 24, 2008

4,000 and 25 - March 24, 2008

Awakening to More Trouble - March 21, 2008

In Retrospect - March 20, 2008

Bush's James Bond Scenario - March 20, 2008

100 Years for What? - March 19, 2008

Another way of laying out the data - March 17, 2008

McCain vs. Petraeus - March 17, 2008

It's Not the Execution - March 16, 2008

He still finds ways to surprise me - March 14, 2008

Quick Hits: Petraeus, Pentagon and Hiatt - March 14, 2008

Why Partition Sucks - March 12, 2008

O'Hanlon and the Op-Ed Pages - March 11, 2008

More on O'Hanlongate - March 10, 2008

Five Out of Eleven - March 09, 2008

Unintentional Comedy - March 09, 2008

Progress - March 04, 2008

Mandatory Reading - March 03, 2008

The Politics of Iraq in 2008 - February 29, 2008

The Harry and Louise of Foreign Policy - February 29, 2008

Not a great day for Iraqi politics - February 28, 2008

Politics and Foreign Policy - February 26, 2008

Mind Meld - February 22, 2008

Obama's Army Captain - February 22, 2008

Four More Years of Bush's Foreign Policy - February 20, 2008

Is McCain Against Taking Out Al-Libi? - February 19, 2008

Walking In Vs. Sneaking In - February 15, 2008

Global Warming and the Military - February 14, 2008

O'Hanlon... Grrr - February 14, 2008

Victory - February 08, 2008

Why Benchmarks Will Never Work - February 08, 2008

More Troubling News from Anbar - February 07, 2008

1 2 3 Book Meme - February 07, 2008

McCain and Gandhi - February 06, 2008

The Next Powder Keg: Iraqi Provincial Elections - February 05, 2008

Chain of Command - January 31, 2008

Trouble in Awakening Land - January 30, 2008

My thoughts on trade - January 29, 2008

What Saddam Was Thinking - January 27, 2008

The history of the Awakening Movement - January 24, 2008

Iraqi Refugee Bill - January 24, 2008

More Iraq - January 23, 2008

Russert - January 16, 2008

de-Baathification - January 14, 2008

Compensation - January 13, 2008

"Filipino Monkey" - January 12, 2008

Containing Iran - January 10, 2008

One year since the surge - January 10, 2008

Decidedly Uncool - January 10, 2008

Yesterday and Terrible Sports Analogies - January 09, 2008

What Brian and Matt Said - January 08, 2008

Tone Deaf - January 07, 2008

More Bottoms Up - January 03, 2008

The Good VSPs on Pakistan - January 02, 2008

Integrating the Sunnis - December 23, 2007

Who cares about Iraq? - December 20, 2007

Et Tu Kevin? - December 20, 2007

A Very Bad Bill - December 18, 2007

Huckabee and Pakistan - December 17, 2007

Full of Contradictions - December 17, 2007

What the New NIE Really Means - December 09, 2007

Politicize the Intel Community - December 09, 2007

The National Ilan Estimate - December 07, 2007

Spending Money the Conservative Way - December 06, 2007

Very Serious Iranian People - December 06, 2007

Iraqi Security Force Training - December 06, 2007

Lies or Incompetence? - December 04, 2007

Feinstein Vs. Rice - December 04, 2007

Credibility - December 04, 2007

Kurdish Oil - November 28, 2007

Annapolis and "Gang Rape" - November 28, 2007

Good News for the Bush Administration - November 28, 2007

President Bush's War - November 26, 2007

What Shift? - November 25, 2007

Busharraf - November 21, 2007

Annapolis Gets a Bad Rap - November 21, 2007

Lecondel - November 21, 2007

Irony - November 19, 2007

Democratic National Security Messaging - November 19, 2007

The Enemy of My Enemy - November 19, 2007

Lawless Oil - November 16, 2007

Katulis responds to Kahl - November 16, 2007

Questions from the "Audience" - November 16, 2007

Breaking News: Sunnis and Shi'a in Iraq Don't Trust Each Other - November 15, 2007

What I Meant to Say - November 14, 2007

Regional Experts Vs. Military Experts - November 13, 2007

Father of Aardvark Weighs In - November 13, 2007

Kahl and Katulis - November 11, 2007

Going Home - November 08, 2007

A Reasonable Approach on Pakistan - November 08, 2007

Lame Ducks - November 07, 2007

More Proof That Any Idiot Could Have Seen This Coming - November 06, 2007

Lack of Expertise - November 06, 2007

Talking to the Iranians Actually Works - November 06, 2007

Yitzhak Rabin - November 05, 2007

Iraq is Great Once You Get Used to the Mortars - November 05, 2007

Ethnic Cleansing and Reduction in Violence - November 05, 2007

Condi's Transformation - November 04, 2007

2004 Democrats and 2008 Republicans - November 04, 2007

Worst Blog Post Ever - November 04, 2007

Pakistan - November 03, 2007

Daisies - November 02, 2007

Very Serious People Alert - November 02, 2007

Progress - November 01, 2007

Strategic Drift - October 31, 2007

It's Iraq Stupid - October 31, 2007

Holy Crap - October 30, 2007

Podhoretz vs. Zakaria - October 30, 2007

Turkish Funerals - October 29, 2007

Sanction This - October 26, 2007

Strategic Solvency - October 24, 2007

Iraqis For a Timeline - October 23, 2007

Boiling Point - October 23, 2007

Strategery - October 22, 2007

Hackery - October 18, 2007

Realism and Turkish Domestic Politics - October 17, 2007

Point of Clarification - October 16, 2007

What Federalism Isn't - October 16, 2007

Fred Hiatt - October 16, 2007

$88 - October 16, 2007

Waste of Paper - October 16, 2007

Can Federalism Work? - October 15, 2007

American Policy in the Middle East Needs... - October 14, 2007

Bad Resolution - October 14, 2007

Bacevich on Petraeus - October 08, 2007

Worrisome - October 03, 2007

Foreign Policy Wonks and the Presidential Election - October 03, 2007

Ahmadinejad visit - October 01, 2007

How I'm feeling Right Now - September 28, 2007

Subtle But Significant Shift - September 27, 2007

Being Right About Something - September 26, 2007

The Numbers Go On - September 25, 2007

Maliki the "Multi-Nationalist" - September 25, 2007

Proud to be a SIPA Alum Today - September 24, 2007

Worst Announcers in Baseball - September 23, 2007

Pointing Out the Obvious - September 21, 2007

Chutzpah - September 21, 2007

Jim Dobbins Is Really Smart - September 20, 2007

Sunk Costs Fallacy - September 20, 2007

A Little More Than Two Thirds of an FU Ago - September 20, 2007

Seriously - September 20, 2007

Religious Enlightenment - September 19, 2007

Chaos Hawks and the Genocide Arguement - September 18, 2007

Fuzzy Numbers... Again - September 18, 2007

On VSPs, Brookings, CFR and Liberal Institutions - September 17, 2007

How I Spent My Miserable Morning - September 14, 2007

Comments on the speech - September 13, 2007

Putting Your Best Foot Forward - September 13, 2007

Leader of the "Anbar Awakening" Killed - September 13, 2007

Prisoners of Uncertainty - September 12, 2007

Obama and the Humanitarian Option - September 12, 2007

He's Human After All - September 12, 2007

Petraeus Doesn't Know if His Strategy Makes America Safer - September 11, 2007

Rear Guard Action - September 11, 2007

Testimony Live Thread - September 11, 2007

Getting shot in the front of the head - September 10, 2007

Crocker Testimony - September 10, 2007

New Thread: Petraeus's Testimony Fact Check - September 10, 2007

Live Blogging Thread on Petraeus Crocker Testimony - September 10, 2007

Liveblogging Petraeus/Crocker Hearings - September 10, 2007

VSPs Gettin' Down - September 09, 2007

Bottoms Up - September 09, 2007

Apples and Oranges - September 07, 2007

O'hanlon on Why Car Bombings Shouldn't Count - September 07, 2007

Getting Shot in the Front of the Head Doesn't Count - September 06, 2007

Comedy - September 04, 2007

Car Bombings Don't Count - September 04, 2007

Meeting With the Enemy - September 03, 2007

On Labor Day Let's Remember.... - September 03, 2007

Codels - August 31, 2007

More Fuzziness - August 30, 2007

Not Sectarian Violence - August 29, 2007

Bill Kristol Talks with Military Wife - August 29, 2007

Political Progress - August 28, 2007

Petraeus: Lots of Smoke. No Fire Yet. - August 28, 2007

More on Civilian Casualties - August 26, 2007

On Civilian Casualties in Iraq - August 25, 2007

Allawi Will Never Run Iraq - August 25, 2007

Re-Invade Vietnam!!! - August 24, 2007

The Experienced Candidate.... - August 24, 2007

The Clerisy Did Its Job Yesterday - August 23, 2007

New Guest Blogger Ari Melber - August 22, 2007

More "Decoding" - August 19, 2007

Apologies to Juan Cole - August 19, 2007

How to tell an expert from an "expert" - August 18, 2007

What is Our Moral Obligation to the Iraqis? - August 17, 2007

The Word Rudy Didn't Use... - August 16, 2007

Holding the FP Community Accountable - August 14, 2007

Places Not to Go on Your Iraq Tour - August 10, 2007

Musharraf, the Shah and Total Paralysis in Washington - August 09, 2007

"Progress" - August 03, 2007

O'Hanlon and Pollack - August 01, 2007

Introducing Michael Cohen - July 31, 2007

Some Good News - July 29, 2007

Biden's Problem - July 24, 2007

What do we do with 23,000 Iraqi Detainees - July 16, 2007

Breaking Apart at the Seams - July 04, 2007

Training Security Forces - July 02, 2007

After Lugar - June 28, 2007

Poverty Alleviation: Do It Because It Feels Good - June 27, 2007

172 Million Bullets for Iraq - June 15, 2007

Foreign Policy Potpourri - June 12, 2007

Is America the Indispensable Nation? - June 12, 2007

Petraeus Again - June 04, 2007

Are Iraq Casualties About to Get Worse? - June 04, 2007

Even More Petraeus - June 04, 2007

More Petraeus - May 31, 2007

Petraeus Pushes Back... On Me - May 30, 2007

Petraeus's Employee Self Evaluation - May 29, 2007

Two New Guest Bloggers - May 29, 2007

The Iraqi Parliament - May 15, 2007

Lipstick on a Pig - May 12, 2007

Feith, Tenet and the War of the Roses - May 08, 2007

The Next Murthquake - May 08, 2007

Two New Guest Bloggers - May 08, 2007

When Corn Kills - May 01, 2007

Gross Incompetence - April 30, 2007

Some Not So Good Signs - April 30, 2007

Asking for Trouble - April 29, 2007

More on Obama's Foreign Policy Speech - April 24, 2007

Double Standards: Va Tech and Iraq - April 22, 2007

"Time is Irrelevant" - April 21, 2007

Some Reasonable Goals for Iraq - April 20, 2007

Is the War Lost? - April 20, 2007

The Escalation Plan - A 3 Month Report Card - April 18, 2007

A Global Warming War Is Already Happening - April 17, 2007

Does the Road to Jerusalem Go Through Damascus? - April 14, 2007

Worst Job in Washington - April 11, 2007

Chutzpah - April 10, 2007

Worse Than McCain - April 10, 2007

It's About Acting Tough, Not Talking Tough - April 06, 2007

An American MI5 - April 05, 2007

So What Exactly Happened with Those British Sailors? - April 04, 2007

Some Perspective on Opening Day - April 02, 2007

Fear of Failure is Not a Strategy for Victory - April 01, 2007

When Does the Money Run Out? - March 30, 2007

After the Veto - March 30, 2007

Mark Pryor's Dr. Strangelove Diplomacy - March 27, 2007

Who's Defunding the Troops? - March 27, 2007

Why Bush Will Never Leave - March 27, 2007

Why Conservation Works Better - March 25, 2007

Danger Danger - March 22, 2007

Curveball Revisited - March 20, 2007

A New Standard for Success in Iraq - March 19, 2007

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