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Frank Wolf (R-Va.), an Appropriations Committee member, writes to President Obama to call for an independent, Bipartisan Afghanistan-Pakistan Study Group (APSG), modeled on the Iraq Study Group headed by James Baker and Lee Hamilton.

The ISG was created by Legislation written by Wolf, to serve as “fresh eyes on the target.” Wolf tells us: “When [Chief of Staff Dan Scandling] and I went to Afghanistan the first time, we moved around. What Dan and I did when....