Quoting Christopher Hitchens from Monday, on the Iraq Study Group:

“The summa of wisdom in these circles is the need for consultation with Iraq’s immediate neighbors in Syria and Iran. Given that these two regimes have recently succeeded in destroying the other most hopeful democratic experiment in the region – the brief emergence of a self-determined Lebanon…”

“This will present few difficulties to Baker, who supported the Syrian near-annexation of Lebanon. In order to recruit the Baathist regime of Hafez Assad to his coalition of the cynical against Saddam in the Kuwait war, Baker and Bush senior both acquiesced in the obliteration of Lebanese sovereignity…”

And James Baker is now worthy of our trust in selling out the Iraqis? Resulting in a unified Iran-Iraq-Lebanon-Syria under a nuclear-armed, terror supporting mullahcracy holding Israel in its sights? All so that the NYT can fawn over Baker and repeat the inane “he got us out of war”?