Beyond hope: summer 2006 may go down as the time when Iraq was lost for good.(IRAQ)

LESLIE GELB, FORMER PRESIDENT of the Council on Foreign Relations and veteran of policy circles dating back to the Johnson administration, was an unlikely candidate to surprise the routine world of Washington national-security roundtable discussions. But debating Iraq with Lawrence Korb on July 20 at the Center for American Progress, he did just that.

When his turn to speak came, Gelb fled the safety of the podium and stood and delivered his remarks Oprah-style, pacing around the room wireless microphone in hand. The substance of his remarks, though, was less innovative. He ...

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