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The Iraq Study Group Report Is a Misleading Fantasy

Published Mon, Dec 11 2006 3:48 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, War on Terror

Youssef Ibrahim at the New York Sun has an interesting take on the Iraq Study Group's defeatist report...

It took nine months and a huge amount of propaganda, but the Iraq Study Group's report neither presented a solution to the American dilemma in Iraq nor raised a single serious alternative to the present course.
Virtually every recommendation from the bipartisan group is unrealistic, misleading, fantastical, whimsical, and fanciful.
Downsizing American combat troops from the present level of 140,000 in favor of "embedding" American military personnel as advisers or trainers with Iraqi troops is insane. It only means delivering those troops who remain into the hands of Iraqi and foreign insurgents, kidnappers, and Iranian operatives.
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Linking an American withdrawal to the performance of a nonexistent Iraqi military is a nonstarter. These security structures have failed repeatedly to materialize, despite numerous attempts to create and train them. Even when they are established, they quickly disintegrate.
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Equally absurd is the group's recommendation for a regional "diplomatic offensive" to build an international consensus about stability in Iraq.
Neighboring countries have competing and conflicting agendas for the outcome in Iraq. Iran and Syria are actively supporting factions to shape an Iranian-style theocracy or a Baathist autocracy, while Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates are advocating for the Sunnis to destabilize Shiite-dominated Iraq further.

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Incongruous recommendations, by group participants such as Vernon Jordan, to promote interfaith "healing" between Sunnis and Shiites would be laughable were they not so cynical. Such psychobabble betrays a deep ignorance of Islam. A 13-century-old feud between the two main branches of Islam is not about to he healed by an American initiative for dialogue among Muslims. (emphasis added)
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But the one that takes the cake is the recommendation for America to hold talks with Iran and Syria.
These two governments' goals are diametrically opposed to those of America, which seeks to leave a country capable of defending its borders and sovereign in making its decisions.

What more really needs to be said? The Iraq Study Group has been appropriately called the "Iraq Surrender Group" by many on the right. Their recommendations fall neatly into line with the recommendations of just about everyone that wants to see Iraq be another Viet Nam.

We can't afford to let that happen. Surrender in Iraq will ultimately mean dhimmitude in our own country as the Islamic terrorists that are tearing up the world become emboldened and eventually overcome the world while the West plays at "healing".

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