Baker Meets with the Syrians

The Syrian ambassador describes his meeting with the Iraq Study Group. This can't be very encouraging if you are Israeli, Shiite Iraqi, or a Lebanese who actually hoped to have a free country someday.

That being said, my prediction is the Study Group recommendations have even less impact then the 9/11 Commission recommendations. Their proposals for Iraq will have all the strength of your standard, bi-partisan, written-by-committee, white paper. I doubt they will even be able to play midwife to a new level of federal bureaucracy, falling short of the bar set by the 9/11 Comission. I just don't see an "Office of the Director of National Intelligence for Iraq" in the cards.