IRAQ: "Apocalypse Not," Robert Dreyfuss's myth-buster in Washington Monthly. "Much of Washington assumes that leaving Iraq will lead to a bigger bloodbath," writes Dreyfuss. "It's time to question that assumption."

IRAQ: "A New Paradigm for Peace," Jeremy Brecher's article in The Nation, suggesting that there are ways to deal with the situation in Iraq without condemning Iraq to even more bloodletting.