U.S. Policy Options for Iraq: A Reassessment

Cover......Page 1
Preface......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Summary......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 20
Abbreviations......Page 22
The Problem of Iraq......Page 24
The Situation Today......Page 25
Employ Overwhelming Force......Page 34
Pick, and Back, Winners......Page 37
Partition......Page 39
Leave......Page 41
Maintain Current Efforts......Page 42
From Strategy to Policy......Page 43
Maintain a National Unity Government......Page 46
Prevent a Kurdish Takeover of Kirkuk......Page 47
Oppose the Creation of New Regions......Page 48
Keep Oil Revenues in the Hands of the Central Government......Page 50
Engaging Iraq’s Neighbors......Page 51
Get the Ministry of Interior Under Control......Page 54
Improve Policing......Page 59
Police Organization and Recruiting......Page 62
Law and Order......Page 63
Reduce Financial Flows to Militias and Other IllegalGroups......Page 64
Coalition Force Employment......Page 66
Public Information......Page 68
Liberalize Refined Oil Product Prices......Page 70
Improve the Operations of the Oil Ministry......Page 72
Restructure the Oil Ministry Along Commercial Lines......Page 73
Improve Oil-Sector Security......Page 75
Follow “Clear and Hold” Operations with Local Projects,Not Makework Job Programs......Page 76
Give the Iraqi Government Credit......Page 79
Politics and Security......Page 80
U.S.-Iraq Relations......Page 81
Continued Security Assistance......Page 82
Offer Broad Amnesty......Page 83
Demobilization, Disarmament, and Reintegration......Page 84
Economic Policies......Page 85
Improve the Operations of the Electric Power Ministry......Page 86
Improve Iraqi Welfare Programs......Page 87
End the Use of U.S. Grant Aid for Infrastructure Projects......Page 88
When Is It Time to Go Home?......Page 90
How Should We Leave?......Page 91
What Would Be the Repercussions of Withdrawal?......Page 92
What Could the United States Do to Mitigate theRepercussions of Withdrawal?......Page 93
Reassure Friends and Allies......Page 94
Help Refugees......Page 95
Maintain Appropriate Relations with the Successor Regime......Page 96
References......Page 98