Playing the Syria Card?:

Claudia Rosett @ The Rosett Report spots an alarming development in the “realpolitik” of Iraq: “Syria’s foreign minister, Walid Moallem, has just dropped in on Baghdad to say that his government wants to help stabilize Iraq, and would like to see a timetable for American troop withdrawal. And in the U.S., the Iraq Study Group, co-chaired by James Baker and Lee Hamilton, and slated to present its list of options to President Bush in the very near future, appears to be considering these ideas.” (Read it HERE)