Bingo, Senor Cutter...
Another Home Run!
I love Hitchens when he writes on Iraq, just as much as I hate him whenever he writes on Reagan(in his opinion,"dumb as a stump").
Pretty strange. It feels like reading articles from 2 different people.
Daisy,
Any one named Daisy is welcome here ... I agree with you. It is funny. Recall that Pres. Reagan pre-dated 9/11, the date of Hitchens' conversion on foreign affairs.
Interestingly, Pres. Reagan would have done the same as Pres. Bush, if not more. So, Hitchens would likely not find Pres. Reagan so dumb if he were president on 9/11.
And Nick, I just report. You decide.
DC:
Great stuff, assembled in one place. Hitchens is great on this subject. He just needs to shed a few of the prejudices and fantasies that limit him on other matters.
But you could staple a copy of Hitchen's column to the nether regions of every Sheehanized lefty in The West, and they still wouldn't care. Every liberal conviction they claimed to hold wound up in the toilet, because they didn't believe in them in the first place. Leftism is nothing but a seemless skein of lies. If this war did nothing else, it revealed the grotesque and horrifying face of leftism, and where it differs from true liberalism.
Hitchens is the exception, like Roger Simon and a few others. He actually lives by his standards, and this is why the left reviles and spurns him now. I wonder how long it will be before they try to kill him.
Rhod, indeed Hitchens'liberal credentials give him much credibilility on this subject. I predict that he will continue to become more conservative ... and maybe in other areas ... in large part due to the unmasking of leftism that you describe.
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