Waiting a few days for the results of the Iraq Study Group to filter through the AList has paid off. Just about everyone has something to say about it, whether thoughtful, amusing or wacko:
Fred at A VC compares the White House to a corporation: "Reading the comments Bush made at his press conference with Tony Blair yesterday reminds me of how hard it is for a management team that is responsible for a failed strategy to acknowledge the failure and come up with a new one." What can businesses take away from this fiasco?
AdHurl reacts to the front page of the New York Post:
Andrew Sullivan links to this pathetic creature: "...the only problem with our Iraq strategy is that we haven't declared war on enough people."
The Captain says that Iran, Syria and Iraq are less than enthusiastic about the report: "Iran and Syria will not voluntarily end their support and direction of terrorism just because we ask them to a big meeting."
Crooks and Liars says that Russ Feingold gets it: "Unfortunately, the Iraq Study Group report does too little to change the flawed mind-set that led to the misguided war in Iraq. Maybe there are still people in Washington who need a study group to tell them that the policy in Iraq isn’t working, but the American people are way ahead of this report."
Hugh Hewitt feels that the ISG will pull conservatives together: "The almost instant reject of the central recommendations of the ISG Report by key officials in Iraq and Israel, and serious observers of the war is a refreshing bit of resolve. "
Little Green Footballs continues his detachment from reality: "The Iraq Study Group’s report is out: Iraq Study Group: United States Institute of Peace. As expected, it’s all about defeat and retreat."
NewsBusters damns the ISG by ignoring the three facets of our government: "...we should note that this is not a White House commission, but a group assembled by Congress."
Meanwhile, Talking Points Memo introduces us to the new game in Washington: "It's almost become a parlor game among conservatives. Pick the best scapegoat for President Bush's Iraq catastrophe."
And the money quote from Tom D'Antoni on the Huffington Post: "With everyone running in circles, leaping for joy and clapping their hands over the fact that Jim Baker's boys have concluded what many of us knew before the war started, that you can't win in Iraq, it might be good to consider:
Any reading of history will tell you that this was the obvious outcome."
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