Iraq Progress Report

Advocates for liberty weigh in after three years

March 17, 2006

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I am not an expert on Iraq, and it is hard to know for certain whose account of the situation to believe. But those are my best guesses.

David Friedman is a professor of law at Santa Clara University and the author of many books, including The Machinery of Freedom: A guide to radical capitalism and the new novel A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq (Plume).

Remember a pressing engagement

Wendy McElroy

1. Did you support the invasion of Iraq?

I opposed the invasion on both principled and practical grounds

2. Have you changed your position?

My opposition has deepened as the war has exceeded my worst fears in duration, blatant economic motives, political incompetence and military brutality.

3. What should the U.S. do in Iraq now?

Get out right now. Declare victory, declare defeat, remember a pressing engagement back home... it doesn't matter what reason is given. Get out immediately.

Wendy McElroy is the editor of ifeminists.net, a weekly columnist for FOX News, and the author of several books on anarchism and on feminism. She maintains a daily blog at www.wendymcelroy.com.

Recruits, inspiration, targets

John Mueller

1. Did you support the invasion of Iraq?

I opposed it, as my 2003 commentary in Reason will indicate. One comment about the link between a war in Iraq and terrorism from that: "it seems likely that an attack will supply them with new recruits, inspire them to even more effort, and provide them with inviting new targets in the foreign military and civilian forces that occupy a defeated, chaotic Iraq."