Forget the Executive Summary which is a collection of platitudes and wish-lists. If the assumptions in the Executive Summary were true - for instance that Iraq's neighbors see themselves as having a stake in a stable and successful Iraq - the problem would have been solved long ago and our troops would be home. But ...the next section - "Assessment" - is an effective and hard-hitting summary of the situation in Iraq as of now. And it isn't pretty. Having read Dr. Richard Feynman's droll narrative of the writing of the Challenger disaster report back in the 1980's (Dr. Feynman...