Complex, but not unknowable........
Oh it's all just so complicated!!
"NOBODY -- not Paul Bremer, not Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, not any of the hundreds of reporters trying to cover Iraq -- has any real idea of what's happening in that country or what the outcome will be. It's so complex that it's simply unknowable"

Ok, some points.
I am tired of everyone talking about how complex, confusing and just damn mind boggling Iraq is. It was complex, confusing and mind boggling BEFORE we tore ass in with guns blazing, dreams of the Iraqis throwing flowers, and visions of all that cheap oil bubbling up out of the ground.
But we all were just so caught up with the talking heads on TV and newspaper editors telling us how we must strike at Saddam because he trained the terrorist personally to fly on 9-11 and was busy loading up nuclear missiles and bioweapons to strike Smallassville USA.
And we bought it.
We did not question the ridiculous assertions of our "leaders" when they told us that within a year of Saddam's fall we could get the county up and running with the oil reserves they possessed. And terrorism would end.
The ones who did got slapped down, made fun of, called un-American, un-patriotic and threatened into conforming to the party line.
So, now that the chickens are coming home to roost some of these same folks are either still spinning the history and trying to rewrite what "really" happened during the past year or have decided to check out by claiming it is just too complicated and "unknowable".