A sign of hope for Iraq

"A Financial Times editorial once wrote of American policy in Iraq that given an array of bad options they usually choose something even worse.

This has been the pattern of American behavior since 2003. But, for once, statements from British and American generals and indications of what James Baker's Iraq Study Group will recommend are actually starting to show signs of the kind of realistic thinking that may actually start to get Iraq out of the mess that America created."
Asterism

Sounds like code talk for a return to the ba'ath.