After Fareed Zakaria's glum prognosis, the head of the British army makes a candid (no, let's be honest, breathtaking) admission about what's going wrong:
He lambasts Tony Blair's desire to forge a "liberal democracy" in Iraq as a "naive" failure and he warns that "whatever consent we may have had in the first place" from the Iraqi people "has largely turned to intolerance."
The only solace I can find at the moment (and I'm not sure it's anywhere near enough) is that Republic of Fear author, Kanan Makiya still supports the invasion:
I, like many others, made many mistakes of evaluation, of judgment. But I don't know how to look anybody in the face today and say that because
things have gone wrong since the liberation, that it was therefore wrong to get rid of an extraordinary tyranny like [the one] we suffered under in Iraq. An exceptional tyranny, even by the terrible standards of the Middle East. It seems to me these are two separate questions, morally speaking. Not politically; I'm not speaking realpolitik.
I'm sure today, not a day passes that many members of the American administration do not rue the day that they ever supported this activity of getting rid of the tyrant and replacing [him with] a new order. They certainly regret it, because it has not been in American interests, by and large.
