An Excellent Interview of an Excellent Reporter
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:
[T]here’s an old saying that countries get the kind of governments they deserve. Well, I would say that may be true also of the military. And the United States military that we encounter are wonderful. They’re magnificent. They’re extremely brave, that goes without saying. They make an enormous effort to perform a civic as well as military duty in Iraq. They are people of honor, and they’re people of whom America can be proud. And I say that without…in an unhyphenated, unqualified way, and I hope that that finds its way into the columns of the New York Times, in the way that we report on this war. America has a fine military, a fine Army, a fine Marine Corps and Navy. . . .
