The Iraq Study Group Report
With a running conversation
in the margins by....
... and more to come.
in the margins by....
- Brian Drolet (2 comments)
- Curtis White (2 comments)
- David Fromkin (1 comment)
- Frances FitzGerald (5 comments)
- Gary Hart (1 comment)
- Helena Cobban (6 comments)
- Howard Zinn (1 comment)
- James Warner (11 comments)
- Joost Hiltermann (6 comments)
- Karl Meyer (1 comment)
- Kevin Baker (31 comments)
- Larry Everest (1 comment)
- Matthew Stevenson (1 comment)
- M.J. Rosenberg (3 comments)
- Raghida Dergham (9 comments)
- Reidar Visser (5 comments)
- Wayne White (1 comment)
- William Polk (1 comment)
- W. Patrick Lang (1 comment)
... and more to come.
"I hope we don't treat this as a fruit salad,
and say, 'I like this but I don't like that.'"
and say, 'I like this but I don't like that.'"
—James A. Baker III
We've opened up the report to a quorum of informed sources both foreign and domestic, asking them for notes, commentaries and corrections at any point in the proceedings that incites them to further clarification or forthright translation into plain English. The respondents are free to address any one of the seventy-nine recommendations, to doubt an assertion or deconstruct a paragraph, to bring to bear an historical perspective on an opaque sentence or a clichéd chapter heading, to lend the ballast of their collective marginalia to the hot air balloon of a text sorely in need of tethering to the ground of common sense and geopolitical reality.