Baker's Outline for Surrender

Thats John Burtis' view of the Jim Baker's Iraq Study Report, and I fear he's right:

As Ralph Peters explains in the Weekly Standard article, ‘From Metternich to Jim Baker’, “No matter the politically correct language in which it may be couched, the group’s fundamental recommendation will be a return to a foreign policy in which the quest for stability trumps freedom, ignores human rights, frustrates the will of the people, and violates elementary decency.”

And what do these prescient lines remind you of? Everything the new Democratic Party stands for. And still the progressives, the left wing journalists, and the obnoxious pundits like David Gregory complain about the contents of this nebulous screed.
Peters encapsulates the goals of the new Democratic Party perfectly, and how they view the American electorate and the role of government in his description of this ouyline for surrender. The left is revolted by the Electoral College, they fear ballots, they worship exit polling, they believe that human rights matter only as a tool for power, decency is seen as a dinosaur to be jettisoned unless it can be dragged out of the primordial slime and hung around a Republican’s neck, and freedom is a threat to their tenuous grasp on power, while the Constitution is a mere scrap of paper.

President Bush would do well to ignore this ill-thought-out drivel from the Left, save only for lip service to the Press.