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December 15, 2006

"Such fatuous King Canute pronouncements ..."

Posted by Bill

Krauthammer on the ISG report:

The ISG has not just been attacked by left and right, Democrat and Republican. It has invited ridicule. Seventy-nine recommendations. Interdependent, insists Baker. They should be taken as a whole. "I hope we don't treat this like a fruit salad and say, 'I like this but I don't like that.'" On the basis of what grand unifying vision? On the authority of what superior wisdom? A 10-person commission including such Middle East experts as Sandra Day O'Connor, Alan Simpson and Vernon Jordan?
This kind of bipartisan elder-statesmen commission is perfectly appropriate as a consensus-building exercise for, say, a long-range problem such as Social Security. It is a ludicrous mechanism for devising strategic changes in the middle of a war.

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Also need to secure the Syrian & Iranian borders. Heavily. And don't worry if a few bombs drop on the wrong side of the border.

Posted by: rbj at December 15, 2006 12:14 PM