Jim's right.

The WaPo makes it clear this was a bunch of traditional FP heavy-hitters, many of them neocons or traditional conservatives.

The White House blocked the reconvening of the Baker-Hamilton panel, which was evenly divided among 10 prominent Democrats and Republicans, by urging Baker not to participate, according to U.S. officials. So USIP reconvened the experts who had advised them. The group, which met through the summer, is made up of some two dozen former U.S. officials and ambassadors, former CIA analysts, and Iraq specialists from think tanks and universities.

That means these are some of the folks that Don Surber is dishonestly touting as "peacenicks".

The Heritage Foundation (James Jay Carafano), Hudson Institute (Hillel Fradkin), AEI (Reuel Marc Gerecht), Nixon Center (Geoffrey Kemp), RAND (James F. Dobbins), the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (Clifford May) and many other major conservative think tanks as well as prominent centrist and left-leaning ones. The advisory panel is a who's-who of the major US foreign policy think tanks. The Brookings Institution (Michael E. O'Hanlon), the Center for Strategic & International Studies, the National Defense University and the Council on Foreign Relations are all likewise well represented.

And let’s not forget:
Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr. United States Navy, Retired. General John M. Keane United States Army, Retired. General Edward C. Meyer United States Army, Retired. General Joseph W. Ralston United States Air Force, Retired. Lieutenant General Roger C. Schultz, Sr. United States Army, Retired

General Keane was one of the two architects of the Surge, along with Fred Kagan.

People are trying to make something more out of the USIP's title than actually exists.

Regards, C