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POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: ISG FOLLIES. Two new pieces inspired by the Iraq Study Group report are now up: Peter Dreier notes the absurdity of Jim Baker -- that Jim Baker -- being recast as a noble bipartisan consensus-builder. And Matt lays out the cognitive dissonance on display in the ISG's report -- a dissonance that really amounts to a "sickening exercise in denial and evasion:"
Bad ideas for Iraq are nothing new, of course. What's especially egregious about the ISG's recommendations is that the commission clearly recognizes the nature of the problem, as evidenced by the opening section of its own report. It then fails to address its own analysis simply because the only reasonable conclusion to draw from it is the politically unacceptable one that we've lost and we need to leave. The result, simply put, is a gross abdication of responsibility.Read it here.
--The Editors
