(From today’s LA Times: “The option of regionalizing the effort — with the help of Iran and Syria — appears to have the support of former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, the Iraq Study Group co-chairman. The senior U.S. official said that such an approach would require Washington to set aside other goals regarding Syria and Iran — including its push to keep Tehran from gaining a nuclear weapon. ‘The question is, are they willing to throw out their Iran and Syria policies to help their Iraq policy?’ he said. ‘That’s hard for me to conceive.'” Me too. See here for more on the Baker-Hamilton Commission.) Posted on October 17, 2006: Yesterday’s Los Angeles Times reports: