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  • From Metternich to Jim Baker (The high price of restoring the ancien régime)

    12/05/2006 10:39:47 PM PST · by RWR8189 · 12 replies · 656+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | December 11, 2006 | Ralph Peters
    THE SUPERANNUATED membership of the Iraq Study Group shepherded by former secretary of state James Baker conjures a line from the film The Sixth Sense: "I see dead people." Two centuries ago, Europeans dreaming of reform and freedom must have felt just as crestfallen as they watched their continent's ghoulish elder statesmen gather for the Congress of Vienna. Both assemblies symbolize a victory for the ancien régime, the bloody-minded refusal to accept that the world has changed profoundly and will continue to change.If the Baker commission is the K-Mart version of the Congress of Vienna, its influence may prove no...