"...perhaps the most glaring omission in the Iraqi Study Group’s report was their failure to identify the vitriolic propaganda campaign of the anti-war Progressive-Left as part of the problem."


Where the Iraq
Study Group starts to stray is in their assertion that the
Israeli-Palestinian issue is somehow related to the power
struggle currently taking place in Iraq. Unless I am ignorant to
the existence of a Jewish contingent in the newly formed Iraqi
government, introducing this conflict into the equation simply
complicates the matter. It creates opportunities for the less
than reputable insurgent factions to blame their continued acts
of violence on something that isn’t part of the immediate
problem.
The current difficulty in Iraq stems not from the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
<http://www.newmedia journal.us/ staff/nsalvato/ 06162006. htm> but
from two existing clashes: the centuries old battle between the
Shi’ites and the Sunnis
<http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Historical_ Shi%27a-Sunni_ relations>
and the more recent radical Islamists’ struggle against the
West, namely the United States.