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All the King's Horses…

It's too late for Jim Baker, Nancy Pelosi or anyone else to put this Humpty Dumpty back together again. But if Iraq is hopeless, there’s still time for Afghanistan.

WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Michael Hirsh
Newsweek
Updated: 2:45 p.m. ET Nov 14, 2006

Nov. 14, 2006 - This is a tale of two headlines. One comes from the marble hallways of self-satisfied Washington, where a newly humbled George W. Bush is recommending drapes to a newly cocky Nancy Pelosi, and the town anxiously waits for the sage Jim Baker to fix the mess made by the Bush family’s black sheep, who also happens to be president of the United States. The headline is: "Will Bush Talk to Iran and Syria about Iraq?" Apparently that's a big part of the Baker plan, judging from the long, convivial dinner he had the other week with Iran's ambassador to the U.N., Javad Zarif, which according to an informed source was all about Iraq.

To the folks who've been screaming it's not a "full-blown civil war," get the hell out! Our troops don't belong in the middle of a full-blown civil war!