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Ilan Peleg, Charles A. Dana Professor of Social Science, was one of ten national experts featured on the OpEd pages of the March 19 San Francisco Chronicle in an article marking the third anniversary of the Iraq war. Titled “The Defiant War: When it began three years ago, few people could have anticipated that the combat in Iraq would last so long or that the enemy would become a stubborn and resilient insurgency,” the article asks Peleg and a variety of other experts and analysts what they believe the United States should do, starting now, about the situation in Iraq.
“The opportunity still exists for the international community to work with the United States to pressure the warring Iraqi factions to compromise and share power,” notes Peleg in a portion of his statement. “Failure to do so will result in all likelihood in the dual calamity of a civil war and eventually a widespread regional conflict.”
A longer OpEd piece by Peleg on the same topic appears in the March 19 edition of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa.