I read in some liner notes (maybe for their box set) that Pete did regret the incident with Hoffman, and it was a "get the f**k off my stage kind of thing"
Pete's (and Roger's) views probably align more with Hoffman's than mine, but at least they didn't join any Rock Against Bush tours last year.
Well, last year there was some brouhaha when Michael Moore made up some story about why Townshend wouldn't let him use "Won't Get Fooled Again" in that pile of steaming dung, Fahrenheit 9/11. So, Pete came out and wrote a long explanation of what really occurred -- and admitted that he was in favor of the Iraq war, at least before the WMD crap that the left pushed.