Mr. fix-it.Where were all these Iraq Study Group The Iraq Study group (ISG), also known as the Baker-Hamilton Commission,[1] was a ten-person bipartisan panel appointed on March 15, 2006, by the United States Congress, that was charged with assessing the situation in Iraq and the US-led Iraq War and making "experts" in the period leading up to the invasion ("A Higher Power Higher power is a term used in a 12-step program, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, to describe "a power greater than yourself." Although many participants equate their higher power with God, a belief in God or in formal religion is not mandatory; the higher power is intended as a ," by Robert Dreyfuss, September)? Given their expertise, could they not have warned the administration of its folly in focusing on Iraq as the linchpin linch·pin or lynch·pin n. 1. A locking pin inserted in the end of a shaft, as in an axle, to prevent a wheel from slipping off. 2. of its Middle East policy? The fact that there are no neoconservative ne·o·con·ser·va·tism also ne·o-con·ser·va·tism n. An intellectual and political movement in favor of political, economic, and social conservatism that arose in opposition to the perceived liberalism of the 1960s: heavyweights in the Iraq Study Group is irrelevant, since they have already defined the parameters and co-opted the choices that future policymakers must wrestle with. SCHEHERAZADE AL-ABED Greenwich, Conn. I was executive secretary/director of a federal advisory board at the National Institutes of Health. All federally-authorized and constituted advisory boards/committees/task forces/study groups have to abide by To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. See also: Abide the openness in government policy. There was outrage when Hillary Clinton held "secret" meetings of her health task force in the early 1990s. She said that "only government employees" are members of the task force. She was wrong. Why not have this government-appointed study group follow government rules and policies? CORALIE FARLEE, PH.D. Washington, D.C. |
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