It’s a worth an hour of anyone’s time to watch the NY Times’ John F. Burns talking to Charlie Rose this week. Rose can be a fawning windbag at times (much of the time in fact) but thankfully Burns can talk, and do so intelligently.
Almost a shame he’s going to become the NY Times London bureau chief. Although London is hardly peripheral to the current power struggles in the world, his insights from the Middle East are invaluable.
And Burns, more than most journalists, understands Britain’s culpability in helping create the current situations with some shonky border drawing, to say the least, as well as the causes and likely consequences of the US government’s current actions.