Christopher Hitchens: Letter to the Left-Do you really want your country to lose the War in Iraq?

Frontpage Magazine ^ | August 16, 2005 | Christopher Hitchens

[evad]

Yes Christopher ..they really do.

The left would do ANYTHING to regain power.

[Khashayar]

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[Brilliant]

Do you really want your country to lose the War in Iraq?

I thought that question had already been answered. Didn't the lefties say that the best thing that could happen for the world is if the US lost?

[lawgirl]

The United States is awash in human rights groups, feminist organizations, ecological foundations, and committees for the rights of minorities. How come there is not a huge voluntary effort to help and to publicize the efforts to find the hundreds of thousands of "missing" Iraqis, to support Iraqi women's battle against fundamentalists, to assist in the recuperation of the marsh Arab wetlands, and to underwrite the struggle of the Kurds, the largest stateless people in the Middle East? Is Abu Ghraib really the only subject that interests our humanitarians?

YES YES YES!! THIS is what I have been screaming since the beginning!!!!!

[coconutt2000]

The way it works is:

Unless there is a liberal or Democrat in charge, the war must be lost.

If a liberal or Democrat is elected while the war is in progress, the message will change to the need to win the war by escalating it (ie sending in more troops, bombing more villages, and generally stomping around the desert ineffectively for the sake of looking like they're actually doing something).

As long as a conservative or Republican is in charge, the war is a travesty and it would be patriotic to help lose the war in order to bring the soldiers home sooner. The resulting chaos caused by the power void would only serve more ammo to use against the conservative/Republican, with the claims being that the withdrawal was not done correctly, and that a Democrat could've done it better.

[mewzilla]

Question: Why have several large American cities not already announced that they are going to become sister cities with Baghdad and help raise money and awareness to aid Dr. Tamimi?

Because as far as the Left is concerned, not all victims are created equal. The people who want help to stand on their own feet, to shed their victimhood, they don't count. The Left likes perpetual victims. Ex: The Palestinians.

[alicewonders]

I'm printing copies of this article to pass out to all of my stupid liberal friends.

[Chgogal]

Thanks for posting this. I read this last week. It is better the 2nd time around.

[lawgirl]

Hitchens got up off his park bench and dried out enough to hit this one OUT of the park!!!

[.cnI redruM]

>>>Do they suppose that a defeat in Iraq would be a defeat only for the Bush administration?


No, but that's about as far as these people actually care about anything.

[ClearCase_guy]

my provisional conclusion is that the human rights and charitable "communities" have taken a pass on Iraq for political reasons that are not very creditable

It is very rare to find anyone in the Humanitarian business (ex. Jimmy Carter) who truly cares about humans. They all seem to have a political agenda, and it is not a nice one.

[evad]

"By gosh I think you've got it"

[Chuck54]

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[Rummyfan]

Bookmarked!

[ukman]

It all depends on the definition of "losing". If America declares a victory and pulls out, leaving the Iraqis to it, they might wipe out the foreign terrorists, co-opt the home-grown resistance, and set up a moderate and stable Islamic-coloured democracy. Assuming sufficient aid from the US and its Moslem ally countries, that might turn out OK.

If the whole country descends into civil war, of course, then the US has lost, but I'm confident the President won't let that happen.

If the foreign terrorists backed by Iran take over, of course, that would be a major defeat for the US. But I doubt the foreign lot would survive if the Iraqis unite.

it does mean of course that the USA will have to swallow the sight of former insurgents being regarded as heroes by the Sunnis and maybe even becoming part of the government. But politics is always about compromise.

In any case, a defeat in Iraq would only be a lost battle in the permanent War on Terror.

[syriacus]

Great, great column. Thanks for posting it.

[Dustbunny]

To the dems it is a political war that they need to turn into a Vietnam. The freedom of human suffering and free democratic countries are not on the agenda of dems unless they can use them politically to win office in the USA.

[Northern Yankee]

This continues to show how meaningless and bankrupt these groups are.

If it doesn't suit their agenda, then it must not be a problem!

[Skooz]

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