Mr. Baker: Surely, you're joking...
It is official now; the Iraq Study Group, aka Baker-Hamilton Group, has released its report on how to disengage in Iraq and as an added bonus, appease (forgive us, engage) the mullahs in Iran, December 4, 2006. They call it a "diplomatic offensive". Yes, it is offensive. For the records, both Messers Baker and Hamilton were ardent supporters of the attack on Iraq.
Mr. Baker, in justifying an approach to the same mullahs who admittedly are the prime cause of havoc in Iraq, said in the ensuing press conference that "... for forty years, we were at war with the Soviets, and yet we talked to them." Fair enough. Let's us digest and decipher this for a moment. The US was at cold war, i. e. proxy wars in Europe, South America, and Asia and the Middle East at the heart of the East-West collision, for four decades, and yet maintained a level of dialogue with the Soviet Union. Now, fast forward to 2006: the United States is the occupier in Iraq and the sole military superpower in the world- a condition that has not existed, well since the beginning of time. The US is supposedly in charge of Iraq's affairs- we do understand that Iraq has an elected government, but that's for another day. Now, ISG is recommending that the US, as the occupier, talk with the same mischievers who engineer nearly all of the instability in Iraq, ala the Iranian mullahs.
We doubt, very seriously, that such a precedence has existed before.
Mr. Baker, in justifying an approach to the same mullahs who admittedly are the prime cause of havoc in Iraq, said in the ensuing press conference that "... for forty years, we were at war with the Soviets, and yet we talked to them." Fair enough. Let's us digest and decipher this for a moment. The US was at cold war, i. e. proxy wars in Europe, South America, and Asia and the Middle East at the heart of the East-West collision, for four decades, and yet maintained a level of dialogue with the Soviet Union. Now, fast forward to 2006: the United States is the occupier in Iraq and the sole military superpower in the world- a condition that has not existed, well since the beginning of time. The US is supposedly in charge of Iraq's affairs- we do understand that Iraq has an elected government, but that's for another day. Now, ISG is recommending that the US, as the occupier, talk with the same mischievers who engineer nearly all of the instability in Iraq, ala the Iranian mullahs.
We doubt, very seriously, that such a precedence has existed before.
posted by Alborz Ledger at 4:41 AM
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