He’s not admitting any mistakes here. He’s just serving notice that one of two things has happened: (1) the political agenda of his employers has changed, or (2) he has new employers.
The neocons such as Boot argued that Achmed Chalabi, a convicted swindler in Jordan and a Shia Iraqi, was the “George Washington of Iraq” who would lead the new participatory democracy. So the Iraqi GW returned as a self-recognized “hero” to run the government after the first Iraqi election. The only problem was that Chalabi got all of one-half of one percent of the Iraqi vote, not even the Shia voted for him as the commonfolks in the country knew exactly what kind of slime he was, truth that somehow escaped the neocons and their acolytes in the CIA and other government agencies. Chalabi had been one of our main sources of the “intel” on WMDs and advocated the “US forces will be greeted with cakes and flowers” BS; he also turned out to have very cosy relations with Iranian intelligence, which saw a real coup in the US spend its blood and treasure getting rid of their main strategic enemy in Iraq. No, Mr. Boot you cannot redeem yourself now; you need to get the boot.
I agree. My first thought after reading this was, what new term will they use to describe the invading of sovereign nations and clubbing it's citizens into a hazy form of democracy.