Commentaries, Opinions, And Analysis On The Iraq Civil War -- June 13, 2014

Back To Iraq: What Can -- And Should -- The U.S. Do Now? -- Greg Botelho, CNN

(CNN) -- For better or worse, Iraq and the United States have been attached at the hip for decades.

From the 1991 Gulf War to the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein to subsequent years marred by violence and instability, there's no doubting the deep connection between the two nations. That's largely thanks to policies crafted out of Washington, be they intended to contain or eliminate Hussein or to stabilize and build up the fragile nation that remained in his wake.

So it is no surprise that, with militants overrunning much of Iraq and threatening its capital, people are turning to the United States.

What can it do? What will it do?

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Analysis On The Iraq Civil War -- June 13, 2014

What’s happening in Iraq? Some smart takes to help figure it out. -- Jason Fields, Reuters
What Obama Didn't Say About Iraq -- Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg
The Sunni-Shiite Conflict Explodes in Iraq -- David Brooks, NYT
What is going on in Iraq and why? -- CBS
Could ISIS overtake Baghdad? (Video) -- CBS
Is this the end of Iraq as we know it? Government powerless against Islamists -- Mitchell Prothero, McClatchy
Islamist Militants Aim to Redraw Map of the Middle East -- Bill Spindle and Gerald F. Seib, Wall Street Journal
Who's to blame for Iraq crisis -- Derek Harvey and Michael Pregent, CNN
Is the violence in Iraq Obama's fault? -- CBS
Iraq disintegrates as President Obama’s foreign policy crumbles -- Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post
Does Obama understand Iraq may soon be an Islamist state? -- James Jay Carafano, FOX News
Obama’s Iraq -- Commentary
Can Obama let Baghdad fall? -- Chris Stirewalt, FOX News
Who lost Iraq? The Iraqis did, with an assist from George W. Bush -- Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post
Assisted Suicide: How two presidents and a band of jihadists killed Iraq. -- Michael Weiss, Politico
How Nouri Al-Maliki’s Policies are Dooming Iraq -- Nabeel Khoury, Cairo Review
We had to topple Saddam – now let's go back to Iraq to rescue democracy -- John McTernan, The Guardian
How — and why — the U.S. must support Iraq -- Anja Manuel, Reuters
Cut the fuel to ISIS’ fire -- Daily Star editorial
Could Iraq conflict boost Kurdish dreams of independence? -- Jim Muir, BBC
Iraq turmoil has one winner: the Kurds -- Scott Peterson, CSM
How Iraq's Kurds May Be The Unlikely Losers In The ISIS Chaos -- Christopher Helman, Forbes
Revenge of the Kurds -- Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy
Amid turmoil, Iraq’s Kurdish region is laying foundation for independent state -- Ben Van Heuvelen, Washington Post
History’s Judgment: The Iraq Surge Failed -- Zachary Keck, The Diplomat
Iraq Violence Opens Up Old Wounds for Vets -- Bill Briggs, NBC
In Extremists’ Iraq Rise, America’s Legacy -- Dexter Filkins, New Yorker
Iraq’s disintegration could haunt the U.S. for years to come -- Washington Post editorial
Flash Points: As Iraqi cities fall to jihadists, is the United States in danger? (Video) -- CBS
What does Iraq's crisis mean for oil? -- BBC
11 facts that explain the escalating crisis in Iraq -- Zack Beauchamp, VOX
As Iraq faces collapse, the media blackout of the war abruptly ends -- Howard Kurtz, FOX News