[Colosis]

Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.

Nice one Chris...

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Osama bin Laden is dead in my opinion, and probably has been dead for more than a year. Saddam Hussein is alive, but not where he planned to be.

The Taliban and the Ba’ath and the Serbian Socialist Party will not regain power, however much violence they muster. These are facts.

The combat as a whole will never be “over”, because it is part of a permanent struggle between reason and unreason, among other things. But to assert that rather minimal point is also to assert that the enemy cannot win.

BUMP

[G.Mason]

"FP: I would like to focus in on the Left’s mindset. What is it deep down in the heart of a leftist anti-war activist that spawns his opposition to Bush in the face of an evil such as Saddam and Osama?"

" Hitchens: There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred. "

Smack!

" FP: Last question: in terms of your own position on Iraq and the War on Terror, are you making any headway or inroads in leftist ranks? Are any segments of the Left receptive to your message? How have you been received by the Left in general with your stance?"

" Hitchens: Most of the leftists I know are hoping openly or secretly to leverage difficulty in Iraq in order to defeat George Bush. For innumerable reasons, including the one I cited earlier, I think that this is a tactic and a mentality utterly damned by any standard of history or morality. What I mainly do is try to rub that in.

My short reply is that it is un-loseable. We still haven’t captured Radovan Karadzic or Ratko Mladic, who are hiding somewhere in Europe ten years after murdering over 10,000 Muslims in one day. But their protector regime is gone and one day they will be caught or killed. Osama bin Laden is dead in my opinion, and probably has been dead for more than a year. Saddam Hussein is alive, but not where he planned to be."

Thanks for the post kattracks.

Yet further insight into one of the great analytical minds of our day.

[1rudeboy]

Enjoyable read. Everyone should click-through and read the rest of the interview.

[Live free or die]

Whittaker Chambers wrote that in the fight against communists the two prevailing forces were going to be the communists themselves and the disenchanted ex-communiists. Folks like David Horowitz and Chris Hitchens fit this pretty nicely.

[eureka!]

bump for later...

[polemikos]

Hitchens: "Most of the leftists I know are hoping openly or secretly to leverage difficulty in Iraq in order to defeat George Bush. For innumerable reasons, including the one I cited earlier, I think that this is a tactic and a mentality utterly damned by any standard of history or morality. What I mainly do is try to rub that in."

hehehe

[Democratshavenobrains]

Hitchens is a reminder that at one time, Leftists were idealistic about actually improving society, even if they might have been wrong about it. Now all they care about is defeating conservatives.

[polemikos]

Hitchens: "Some pessimistic liberals who don’t wish to sabotage the effort still describe the war against jihadism and dictatorship as 'unwinnable'. My short reply is that it is un-loseable."

hehehe