Is James Baker a Match for AIPAC?
by Paul Craig Roberts
The report by the Iraq Study Group is an attempt by elder statesmen of the American political establishment to take U.S. foreign policy out of the incompetent hands of President Bush and the self-serving hands of the Israeli Lobby. The Iraq Study Group’s effort may or may not succeed.
Others have expressed disappointment that the ISG elder statesmen did not call for Bush’s impeachment and immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq. Such wishful thinking caused writers to pour cold water over the establishment’s attempt to save Bush and the U.S. from a “grave and deteriorating” situation.
Even war critic Pat Buchanan is dismissive of the ISG report. Buchanan, however, comes closer to the truth than the report’s other critics when he writes that the purpose of the report is to save the establishment from any responsibility for the debacle that Bush and his neoconservative government have produced. (more…)