The New York Times’ John Burns is the reporter, Hugh Hewitt is the interviewer. The transcript is here.
Burns has spent the last five years, I believe, in Iraq, and is one of the most knowledgeable and fair-minded journalists around. Read the whole thing.
PAUL adds: Here is Burns on the U.S. military:
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