Is it time for a fresh look at Obama's Iraq strategy?

Is it time for a fresh look at Obama's Iraq strategy?

from Shadow Government by Peter Feaverhttp://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/10/01/is_it_time_for_a_fresh_look_at_obamas_iraq_strategy

Fred and Kim Kagan have an important article on Iraq that should be required reading of everyone covering foreign policy in this presidential campaign season. Their bottom line: "Far from being a success, then, American policy in Iraq has created an extraordinarily dangerous situation over which we have almost no influence."
The Kagans have earned the right to a respectful hearing on Iraq. They were some of the earliest critics of the way the post-conflict stabilization phase of the Iraq war unfolded, and they were some of the most persuasive and early advocates of the surge strategy President Bush shifted to in 2007.