Wednesday, December 13, 2006

No new Iraq strategy until 2007

If you read this article in the NYTimes about President Bush's plan to delay any new Iraq strategy announcement until early next year it seems to be that he does not currently have a new strategy and needs time to develop one.

On paper this is fine, but I just find it hard to believe that President Bush will be able to come up with a solid plan for proceeding in Iraq by early 2007, especially when his top advisers, Rice and Cheney, seem to be at fundamental odds on how we should proceed. Now is the time that President Bush should begin to solicit additional outside opinions that might bring a new set of eyes and fresh perspective, but honestly I doubt that will happen. Looks like group-think might win again.

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