...nothing the United States might have done...

John Burns of the NY Times: “And my guess is that history will say that the forces that we liberated by invading Iraq were so powerful and so uncontrollable that virtually nothing the United States might have done, except to impose its own repressive state with half a million troops, which might have had to last ten years or more, nothing we could have done would have effectively prevented this disintegration that is now occurring.”

Refreshing. Even the self-absorbed pity-party commentary about the Times' role in the pre-invasion build up is worth hearing.

Watch and read the whole thing.