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By Jackson Diehl | Monday, November 27, 2006 | The Washington Post

Nuch has been written on the Iraq Study Group, some of it presented on this very Blog, But here is something refreshing and encouraging: the fiirst report from the Princeton Project, a massive 2 1/2 year effort to formulate a bipartisan approach to the post-Cold War, post-9/11 world conducted by Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

In Jackson Diehl’s words, “…The Wilson school’s dean, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and politics professor G. John Ikenberry, who jointly directed the project, convened hundreds of experts from across the political spectrum in nine separate conferences; they consulted Kissinger and Madeleine Albright, George Shultz and Zbigniew Brzezinski, among many others. They then wrote a report that, refreshingly, would confound both Bush and many of their fellow Democrats — but contains ideas that ought to have broad appeal across both parties…”. Read on, it’s great stuff…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/26/AR2006112600926.html