There is a deluge of responses, although not yet from Iraqi bloggers, to the Iraq Study Group's recommendations - here is a small sample of what is out there.
Robert Weissman, at Huffington Post, is not the only one to pick up on the threat of reducing US aid to the Iraqi government unless it meets "milestones on national reconciliation, security, and governance".
The assumption, he says, is that the US, metaphorically, has come to put out the fire in Iraq's house.
"The problem with this formulation is that it ignores that we lit the fire in the first place. Also, and even more crucially, it fails to acknowledge that, by our presence and actions, we are fuelling the fire, rather than putting it out."
Hilzoy, at Obsidian Wings, questions the panel's emphasis on training the Iraqi military - one of its key recommendations - alongside a diplomatic push.
If the armed forces have no loyalty to the Iraqi government and are heavily infiltrated by militias, he writes, the soldiers "are likely to obey those militias' orders, not their commanders', when push comes to shove - then providing them with more training will not address their actual problems.
"All it will do is create a large mass of unmotivated people and/or militia members with expert military training."
John Nichols, at the Nation, a left-leaning magazine, thinks embedding US troops among Iraqi forces is a recipe for disaster.
"It could set up precisely the sort of 'Blackhawk Down' scenarios where very bad things happen to Americans, and those developments then become excuses for dispatching more US troops to danger zones."
Even worse, he argues, the embedding of US troops opens up the prospect that Americans "will come to be seen as siding with the ethnic grouping that eventually will dominate the military".
For Tom Chatt, at Upword, the most striking thing about the ISG report is the attempt to bring back consensus to US foreign policy.
The true value of the group was "not a new silver bullet idea that no one had thought of before, but a consensus and an opportunity for all of us to get behind it. Now, as Justice O'Connor [one of the study group panellists] said, it's up to us."
