A War To Be Proud Of

Weekly Standard ^ | 09/05/05 | Christopher Hitchens

[rdcorso]

Let me begin with a simple sentence that,even as I write it,appears less than swiftiar in the modesty of its proposal:"Prison conditions at Abu Ghraib have improved markedly and dramatically since the arrival of Coalition troops in Baghdad."

[rdcorso]

Hitchens tears apart the liberal arguement against the war and makes it clear why we must win in Iraq.If every American read his detailed explaination of the war and the period leading up to it,they would stop having doubts about it.Hitchens puts the big media to shame with his writing skills.

[msnimje]

If every American read his detailed explaination of the war and the period leading up to it,they would stop having doubts about it.

Every RATIONAL American capable of REASONED THOUGHT

[cpdiii]

Hitchens has always puzzled me. He is from the left (not the far left) but he can see the basic issues of right and wrong and survival in a violent world the same way conservatives do. When Hitchens puts pen paper, he destroys the logic of the liberals whom are against the war on terror.

[pcottraux]

"Prison conditions at Abu Ghraib have improved markedly and dramatically since the arrival of Coalition troops in Baghdad."

A resounding statement beautiful in its truthfulness.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Video of Hitchens speaking about Cindy Sheehan:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1469418/posts

[Carling]

My thoughts on Hitchens.

Whether I agree with his writings or not, there is one common aspect about all of them to me. I can't argue with his facts and how they support his logic.

I agree almost completely with this article (it catches my views on Iraq at a 99% level), but even when I read his works that fly in the face of my convictions I still have to respect where they come from. I've read some of his works that make me angry, yet the reasoning behind his words require thought and introspection to debate.

Mr. Hitchens is one of the great thinkers of our time. He, to me, is what a journalist should aspire to be.

[msnimje]

He is from the left...

He had a conversion on 9/11/2001

[Enchante]

Think of Hitchens as similar to "George Orwell" (Eric Blair), about whom Hitchens has written: Orwell was also a socialist, life-long left-winger, but was merciless in analyzing and tearing apart all the platitudes, false pieties, and deceptions that prevail in left-speak. Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984" were generally much better received among conservatives than among the left-liberals because they showed so eloquently the horrors of Soviet-type systems. There is much that we would all find to disagree with Hitchens about, especially in 'domestic' policies, but he does not suffer all the left's fools and charlatans gladly.

[nopardons]

bttt

[decal]

The last two sentences could serve as a motto for FR:

"If the great effort to remake Iraq as a demilitarized federal and secular democracy should fail or be defeated, I shall lose sleep for the rest of my life in reproaching myself for doing too little. But at least I shall have the comfort of not having offered, so far as I can recall, any word or deed that contributed to a defeat."

[JLS]

My favorite line in this very good article is:

"having debated almost all of the spokespeople for the antiwar faction, both the sane and the deranged,"

[kellynla]

BTTT