Kissinger on Iraq

Henry Kissinger, on the prospects for military victory in Iraq:

If you mean by "military victory" an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.

Kissinger always was a charter member of the real[politik]ity-based community, after all.