The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach Summary and Reviews

The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach
by The Iraq Study Group, James A. Baker III, Lee H. Hamilton

The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach
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Author: James A. Baker III, Lee H. Hamilton, The Iraq Study Group
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-12-06
ISBN: 0307386562
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Vintage

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Book Review: For this Iraq they and we pay too much.
Summary: 3 Stars

Shorn of its wishful thinking and vacuous bluster this book does have a few pages of facts about who's who, what's what, and that the cost of this ill-conceived Iraqi debacle to America is likely to be two-trillion dollars in treasure, and in excess of three-thousand dead and twenty-thousand injured, at present estimates and body-count, of blood.

There are three fundamental problems. 1. A peaceful Iraq cannot be achieved whenever there is zero understanding of freedom, as per the individual and their self interest, with the role of government limited to defending freedom as specified by constitutional rights which are not based on philosophies-of-faith, but on rational principles. 2. The Israeli-Palestinian problem is a fabrication of radical-Islam in consort with international actors allied to the UN, and is not amenable to any contrived two-state solution within the envisaged territories. 3. Iraq's finances are inextricably tied to oil. But who owns the oil. As well as the concept of freedom, the concept of property rights must be established.

Although this book is well laid out and clearly and plainly written, it addresses none of these vital issues, but does spin its intellectual wheels interminably about in who's international and regional interests a stable Iraq may be, etc. Nevertheless, pottery-barn economics guide us: 'You break it, you own it'. But since Iraq has always been something of a cracked-croc since the time of its inception in 1922, there is ample grounds to reckon that America has paid over and above its value.to acquire ownership. That said, even America could do with some enlightenment about its philosophical underpinnings so that America's leadership can see clearly beyond this report.

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