Many readers have been challenging us to get more specific on the biggest foreign policy issues of the day, so I will take my crack at Iraq. I think that the Biden-Gelb plan is the best option out there -- see the full version of the plan in a speech Biden gave at the World Affairs Council the same week as his NYT op-ed.

As he wrote in a memo to democratic colleagues that week, "My basic premise is that President Bush does not have a strategy for victory in Iraq. His strategy is to prevent defeat and to hand the problem off to his successor. Meanwhile, the frustration of Americans is mounting so fast that Congress might end up mandating a rapid withdrawal, even at the risk of trading a dictator for chaos and a civil war that could become a regional war. Both are bad alternatives.

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It is graduation season, so I am reprinting below the speech I gave yesterday at the University of Miami Law School Commencement. Sorry about the all caps; I actually wrote it in caps to be able to read it better. Readers who are not lawyers will want to ignore all the stuff at the end.

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