The National Review Online conducted a symposium on Iraq Study Group (ISG). The names involved are Peter Brooks, Victor Davis Hanson, Clifford D. May and David Schenker.

The NRO panel of writers is unanimously critical of the ISG report. Some agree about criticizing Iraq for not doing their part to battle sectarianism in Iraq. Agreement ends there.

The NRO panel points out that dealing with Syria and Iran for the sake of ending chaos is ludicrous. Both of those nations thrive on chaos in order to be players in the Middle East. Dealing with Syria and Iran will mean America forcing to give something up that will be unpalatable at best and unenforceable at worst.

Dealing with Syria will sell out Lebanon and Israel. Syria will want to dominate Lebanonese politics and the return of the Golan Heights. The Golan Heights are used as an invasion buffer to continuously belligerent Syria.

Dealing with Iran will cause the West and America to live with a nuclear armed Iran. There are huge hints that America and the West are willing to acquiesce on this issue. I have heard talk from the new Secretary of Defense (designate) Robert Gates understands Iran’s need to go nuclear. Iran is surrounded by potentially nuclear armed enemies: Sunni Pakistan, Russia, Israel and American WMD armed Naval and Military in Iraq and in Afghanistan. That sounds like the go ahead to me.

Read the NRO Symposium written relating to the ISG.

Other posts on the ISG: Here, Here and Here.