More on Iraq
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- December
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In all the commentary on Iraq, it’s hard to find anyone who thinks the Bush administration will actually talk to Iran or Syria.
Today, at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, former Secretary of State James Baker said President Bush gave him permission to approach the Iranian government, but still it’s difficult to imagine negotiations taking place. This is the man who just a short while ago was still determined to “stay the course.”
Plus would Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad even want to help the U.S.? What will he demand in return? Are we going to keep insisting Iran give up its nuclear program?
As far as linking Iraq to a solution to the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians, here’s Israel’s response: The United States’ problems with Iraq are independent of the problems between Israel and the Palestinians. Not very promising.
The conservative Web site www.redstate.com hasn’t has anything good to say about the commission’s report and today it posted the New York Post’s front page: “Surrender Monkeys.”
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Check out Jeff Jacoby in today’s Boston Globe: “As things stand now, however, negotiating with Iran and Syria over the future of Iraq is about as promising a strategy for preventing more bloodshed as negotiating with Adolf Hitler over the future of Czechoslovakia was in 1938.”
Fred…How the hell are you? In researching I ran across your name in this blog. Small world. It would be interesting to hear your cynical take on the current geopolitical quagmire.