Posted by
Buster Foghorn on Monday, November 27, 2006 7:52:30 PM
As we sputter, spin, and smartly move in place while James Baker and the Iraq Study Group finish their report, commentators fear that James Baker will lead us to regional talks with Syria and Iran where we abandon our Iraqi allies to the wolves in the region.
- Rich Lowry in, Bush adrift, talks about the President’s inability to seize upon a course of action, his delegation of authority to the Generals, and his failure to take responsibility as Lincoln did to master the details of war.
- Frank Gaffney in, The new groupthink, fears that “the Baker-promoted regional strategy is a euphemism for throwing Free Iraq to the wolves in its neighborhood: Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia.”
- And finally, Chester in his blog, “Magical Realism Visits the Middle East, sees similarities in the pending Iraq “solution” to the surreal narratives penned by Garcia-Marquez in his novels. Chester states that the idea that Syria and Iraq will help us stabilize the region that they are responsible for destabilizing is our own current form of “magical realism.”
There is cause for concern if these commentators are correct. Are we about to embark on a course eerily familiar to Prime Minister Chamberlain’s decision appeasing Hitler with the Munich Agreement?