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In the wake of the release of the Iraq Study Group’s report, National Review Online asked a group of experts What does the Iraq Study Group’s report change, if anything? What would be the administration’s most constructive response to it? |
Posted on 12/07/2006 8:46:52 PM PST by humint
In the end, the report provided some good food for thought — and will add texture to the Iraq reviews that both the Joint Chiefs and National Security Council already have underway. All three will provide the president with a good point of departure for adjusting our strategy and tactics in Iraq.
The present readjustments of putting more Americans within Iraqi units, changing the ratio of rear echelon to forward-based troops, and widening the parameters of offensive action could provide that window. I wish the Iraqi Study Group had suggested, George Marshall-like, that they were looking for a colonel or one-star general who wished to be a four-star commander of a victorious American army. Somewhere amid the ranks we have still confident, gifted military officers who believe that they have the know-how and expertise to stop these killers, provide stability for the political process to continue — and impart a victory to the United States.
The report’s authors seem to have given little thought to what it would require to actually defeat the barbarians dispatching suicide bombers to slaughter Iraqi civilians. They put a lot of stock in what they call a “New Diplomatic Offensive.” This might be called a faith-based initiative: It expresses the conviction that America’s enemies are really friends who have been inadequately exposed to the discreet charms of the U.S. diplomatic corps.
Sound familiar? It should — much of these recommendations serve as the foundation of the longstanding U.S.-Syria policy. Indeed, the advice more or less amounts to a rehash of what has essentially proven to be a decades-old failed U.S.-Syria policy.
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In the wake of the release of the Iraq Study Group’s report, National Review Online asked a group of experts What does the Iraq Study Group’s report change, if anything? What would be the administration’s most constructive response to it? |
"What would be the administration’s most constructive response to it?"
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The absolutely MOST CONSTRUCTIVE response is to send each and every one of the members of the Iraq Surrender Group to IRAN -- on a one way ticket.
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