Baker Report Endorses Talks With Insurgents, Supports Key Sunni Political Demands
by Tom Hayden
In my first report, concerning troop withdrawals, I found the Iraq Study Group proposals for troop reductions too vague and equivocal. In my second report, I found their proposals for opening Iraq’s oil reserves to multinationals repugnant and even self-serving. Now let’s turn to the internal political solution offered by the Baker-Hamilton Group.
It deserves close attention, for it mirrors and endorses peace talks with the Iraqi insurgents that are already underway in secret, as first reported in the Huffington Post last week. (more…)
