DECEMBER
11, 2006 --
Yes,
the official title is Iraq Study Group, and critics Rush Limbaugh
are calling it the Iraq Surrender Group.
But if the hands are the hands of James A. Baker III and Lee Hamilton, the
voice is the voice of "even-handed" (read: hammer Israel) specialists
like William B. Quandt, whose name appears on one of the lists of people who
apparently gave their views to the ISG.
LPR skimmed the ISG report and understands that it is concerned with
Iraqi problems, not with problems in waging the war on terrorism.
But, then, this is not the War on Terrorism Study Group.
This suggests that had a similar body been formed in 1942, it would have been
called the France Study Group, not the World War II Study Group.
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Another
name LPR found listed by the ISG was Thomas Friedman, New York Times
columnist who appeared on the
Imus program December 7 and strongly supported the ISG report, but did not
-- so far as LPR heard -- point out that his name is mentioned in one of the
appendices to the report.
Mr. Friedman, during his conversation
with Imus, could not resist taking a left jab at President Bush, declaring
that the president had likely gone into the fetal position after the report
was issued.
Not only was the comment speculative and crude, it might have suggested to
people that we should have an Abortion Study Group (ASG) established under
congressional aegis.
(LPR
allows for the possibility that if the ISG members were on an ASG it,
too, would assert the need to resolve the Arab-Israel matter -- if
the abortion issue is to reach comprehensive settlement.) |
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