While Mike Castle wants everyone to think that the Iraq Study Group reccomendations can be invoked to fix Iraq as if they are some kind of magical incantation – Tom Carper explains that the ISG reccomendations are moot.
“Despite months of American prodding, Iraqi lawmakers have yet to agree on any of the major issues before them — how to deal with oil revenues or settle sectarian differences that so badly divide the country,” he said.
The ISG reccomendation depend on a functioning Iraqi government. In real life (as opposed the the fantasy world that Mike Castle lives in) the ISG reccomendations are moot.
Castle is not only trying to close the barn door with the horse long gone – he wants to take a bunch of charred barn door hardware and pretend that the barn did not burn down three years ago.
UPDATE: One of the major initiatives proposed by the Iraq Study Group is to increase support for the Iraqi police. Yes. Those Iraqi police. The ones colluding with insurgents and killing our guys.
A previously undisclosed Army investigation into an audacious January attack in Karbala that killed five U.S. soldiers concludes that Iraqi police working alongside American troops colluded with insurgents.
The assault on the night of Jan. 20 stunned U.S. officials with its planning and sophistication. A column of SUVs filled with gunmen who posed as an American security team passed through Iraqi police checkpoints at a provincial headquarters in the Shiite holy city.
Within a few minutes, the attackers killed one American, wounded three and abducted four. The captives were later found shot to death; the gunmen escaped.
The U.S. “defense hinged on a level of trust that … early warning and defense would be provided by the Karbala Iraqi police. This trust was violated,” the report dated Feb. 27 says.training and