Iraq Study Group Misses The Elephant In The Room

It's hard to believe, but after the months of alleged work and research that the Iraq Study Group has been doing with respect to the situation in Iraq, somehow they have managed to link the fighting between Sunni Arabs and Shiite Arabs (that has been ongoing for a bit over a thousand years) to issues between Jews and Arabs. The Iraq Study Group of retards also managed to figure out that the key to peace in the middle east rests with offering more civilized discourse to the two most uncivilized governments in the region - Iran and Syria. Syria was even annointed by James Baker, himself, to be the peacemaker among Arabs and Jews - after some groveling by the US, and Israel coughing up anything that Syria might deem fit to ask for.

Interesting.

One would think that among all the people on the panel, including a former Supreme Court Associate Justice (a bad one, but one, nonetheless) and a retired admiral/ex-defense secretary, that someone would have had the brains to put a stop to the Baker-Hamilton idiot train. But, evidently, the rest of them are even dumber.

The key to peace lies in the same place it did 40 years ago, except that the game is a bit different these days. Russia is the key to all of the problems we see in the middle east. This is not to say that Russia is causing these problems, but only that Russia is the sponsor of the main problem states of Iran and Syria. Those states are totally beholden to Russia, as Iran's programs would immediately start to collapse if the Russians withdrew their support.

Russia is the key. It was the key after 9/11, and it's the key today.

There is no reason to speak with Iran or Syria, since Russia is the force that is allowing both of those governments to really survive. Russia is the place to go, and Russians are the ones to get cooperating with us.

I have been very surprised that the West has been ignoring Russia since 9/11, except to bitch about one thing or another. Russia, unlike Iran or Syria, deserves respect, and is a necessary partner for the future. Considering the fact that Russia is going to be one of the largest players in space, it is clear that we are going to have be working with the Russians, eventually, when all of these other countries are nothing but miniscule specks to be looked down on from space. Such a nation deserves far more respect than we give to any of these piss-ant countries, or even to China. Russia should be a PARTNER with the US.

So, after months of work, the Iraq Survey Group managed to 79 recommendations, along with pages and pages of idiotic commentary, bad reasoning, poor logic, and naivete supreme that has but 2 references to Russia in the whole of the document - which are nothing more than references to Russia as a member of the Security Council and the Quartet, while managing to find space for 35 individual and specific references to Israel and problems that Israel is causing by continuing to exist.

It is all very hard to believe. After the equally inane operation of the 9/11 commission, all I can say is that anyone who EVER appoints Lee Hamilton to another commission needs to have his head examined.