eventually i'll get the chance to read this iraq study group report, at least whatever version is made public. but considering how the group met with bush privately last month i think the group has already ruined any illusions that it will offer a truly independent assessment. and because it seems like virtually all of its recommendations have leaked out over the past few weeks, i don't think the report will turn out to be all that revolutionary as it's been hyped to be either.
iraq has become such a disaster that the public, or at least the wonky class, is grasping desperately for a solution, any solution, to the crisis. in anticipation of its report the ISG has been turned into some kind of magic life raft that will carry us out of failed-policyland and on to that new middle eastern paradise that we've been promised all along. the problem is that there is really is no such thing as a magic life raft. there's no santa claus either. growing up can be hard.
