The commission report on Iraq is worth talking about.

Here it is:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/international/20061206_btext.pdf

Update: Here are the key recommendations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/world/middleeast/06report_summary.html This site turns out to be very summary and doesn't really reflect the full range of the commission's recommendations.

Over-all there are 79 recommendation on pages 43-96 of the report (first site above). They show an impressive amount of interviewing, analyzing and thinking. Whether or not the commission succeeds in altering course, its work is informative and bracing.

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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