Posted on December 10, 2006 by Paul Mirengoff

An offensive too far

The Washington Post’s editorial board isn’t buying the Iraq Study Group’s proposed “New Diplomatic Offensive.” They find that to embrace such a proposal “would be to suppose a Middle East very different from what’s on the ground.” Specifically, says the Post, the ISG errs in believing (1) that resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is highly relevant to ending the chaos in Iraq and (2) that the current regime in Syria can be “flipped.”
As I’ve suggested before, the administration caught a big break when the ISG signed on to James Baker’s Middle East fantasies.

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