ISG must stand for, uh, Inane Strategy Guesswork (Mark Steyn Nails The Illustrious Seniors Group)

Chicago Sun Times ^ | 12/10/2006 | Mark Steyn

[goldstategop]

Mark Steyn nailed Washington's senior dotages and their inane 79 point guesswork of a strategy. America should sue for terminal exhaustion. Its hard to tell if this country is a superpower or a third-rate basket case. How very apopros!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[goldstategop]

Best Mark Steyn Tag Of 2006:

Surrender Grandpas!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Van Jenerette]

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. - 1 Corinthians 1:19

(Note: I don't 'quote' often, but this seems to be a perfect fit for the situation...)

[goldstategop]

And in the Hebrew Bible, you find the answer: "The beginning of wisdom begins with the awe of God." Not with these elderly gerontocrats in Washington - they're certifiable fools.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Uncle Ike]

" James Baker has achieved the perfect reductio ad absurdum of diplomatic self-adulation: he's less rational than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "

Yet another "The Emperor has no clothes!" moment from Mr. Steyn.

Has anybody noticed, by the bye, that Mr. Baker is serving a somewhat serendipitous function in this aftermath of the ISG Report -- he's shielding Lee Hamilton from the loud, long, and public scorn he so rightly deserves.

[MNJohnnie]

Only in Washington DC would you form a Congressional Commission and include not a single retired military officer with Counter Insurgency expereince or any Arab-Persian Political/Cultural Regional Expert on the panel.

Some where the ghost of LBJ is laughing his butt off watching another bunch of DC policy geeks and Beltway insiders trying to micromanage a war from 9,000 miles away

[Van Jenerette]

Iraq Study Group (ISG)= REMFs

[goldstategop]

Only in Washington would you still behave like its 1947 and make sure the "f*cking Jews" were kept out of the corridors of power.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[patj]

Wonderfully accurate. What concessions has Syria demanded?

[goldstategop]

You can imagine: call off the UN investigation into Sonny Assad's murders of prominent Lebanese, turn a blind eye to Syria's rearmament of Hezbollah and its subversion of Iraq. The Syrians get to pocket everything of value from America without having to give up nothing in return. Ditto for the Iranians.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Lurker]

And, incidentally, how did that phrase -- "the right of return" -- get so carelessly inserted into a document signed by two former secretaries of state, two former senators, a former attorney general, Supreme Court judge, defense secretary, congressman, etc.

Dear Mr. Steyn,

Here's how it happened. The Saudi royals wrote some really, really big checks to Mr. Bakers law firm.

Love your work,

L

[Ninian Dryhope]

"A diverse quintet, representing many distinctive approaches to international affairs from stylish hauteur to polonium-210."

Priceless!

[outofstyle]

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise

Sometimes no explanation suffices but the divine. How else can this profound idiocy be accounted for? They can't all be senile.

[Mach9]

Not to mention the secretary of defense during the crisis under discussion--baggage-laden or not.

[ByteMercenary]

ISG = islamic Surrender Guidelines

[ThreePuttinDude]

and the funniest part of the whole thing, they
are called a "Blue Ribbon Panel"

When are the beltway numbskulls going to get a clue.
OH, wait they think they have a monopoly of "clues"

Never mind, I must need another cup of coffee.

[goldstategop]

Good one! I wonder if there was something they drank in Iraq while they were there that made them take complete leave of their senses. No body could come with a plan so nonsensical, so impractical and so small-minded at the same time. Its really the reductio ad absurdum of the bureaucratic mindset, which loves to talk on about meeting requirements that are completely intangential to the issue at hand.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[MNJohnnie]

Return of the Golan Heights is the trial balloon the DC Surrender Monkey floated. Not only NO, Not a chance in....No!

[goldstategop]

They could have issued a one line report: Hang Ahmedinejad and Assad. That would have caught the public's imagination and galvanized the bureaucracy into action. I wonder what kept them from proposing it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[MNJohnnie]

Next time I suggest they get 10 guys with CIBs together for their Blue Ribbon Congressional Commission. Not only would it be a lot cheaper, it would be about 100% smarter.