James Baker on Fruit Salad

Testifying on Capitol Hill, Iraq Study Group co-chair and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, referring to the group's report, said: "I hope we don't treat this like a fruit salad and say, 'I like this but I don't like that.' This is a comprehensive strategy."

To continue his simile, I would agree that the report is not like a fruit salad, it's more like a fruit salad with a vegetable salad and a chicken salad thrown into the same bowl. There might even be some roast duck with mango salsa in there for the GEICO cave man.

Baker likes to crow about the fact that the report is bipartisan. One problem with bipartisan products is that while they may be acceptable to all the contributors they are truly satisfactory to none. What the President needs are the best recommendations, not just those based on a consensus.

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