If that's true, then that will be because Bush will ignore the Baker-Hamilton Report, even though incoming SecDef Gates wrote it. Gates is on record supporting collaboration with Ahmedinejad and al-Assad.
"If that's true, then that will be because Bush will ignore the Baker-Hamilton Report, even though incoming SecDef Gates wrote it. Gates is on record supporting collaboration with Ahmedinejad and al-Assad."
And this leaves us to ponder the peculiar illogic of having a Secretary of Defense, who authored such a report, only to ignore the report. Everything points to political expediency, from the resignation of Rumsfeld, to the negative remarks about the ISG from the Bush administration to deflect outrage from the right. But, in the end, with Gates in, that's exactly what we're likely to get. Cut and run, albeit with just enough political cover to mitigate the domestic fallout, plus collaboration with Iran and Syria.
I mean dealing in the sense of confrontation. Collaboration I can definately see.