The Readers Digest Condensed Book version of the Iraq Study Group Report

just think how many smart people spent untold hours putting this together...

(1) Things in Iraq are disastrous and our current policy there is a total failure.
(2) Our troop presence is not improving the situation; things have gotten steadily worse.
(3) There may be goals that, if theoretically met, would improve things, but those goals can't and won't be met -- either because we lack the resources or because they are just not achievable.
(4) No matter what, we absolutely cannot begin withdrawing, and those who want to do so are radical and unserious.

< sigh >

(thanks to glenn greenwald via atrios...)

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