The Iraq Study Group, Reconsidered
Perhaps I was wrong about the Iraq Study Group. Perhaps they're even more befuddled and out of their league than I suggested.
I wrote that Lee Hamilton was one of the members who seemed on the ball. Now Mickey Kaus says, it ain't so.
Kaus writes,
Of all the public figures I got to interview (usually as part of a group) when I was an actual MSM journalist, one of the two or three least impressive--and certainly the most disappointing, given his rep--was Lee Hamilton. Maybe he was having a bad day, but even on topics about which he was supposed to be a leading expert, the man was not mentally agile. ...
