Posted on 03/28/2008 1:38:06 PM PDT by K-oneTexas
How did I get the Iraq war so wrong? I didn't
Christopher Hitchens | March 20, 2008
[Snip} AN anniversary of a war is in many ways the least useful occasion on which to take stock of something like the Anglo-American intervention in Iraq, if only because any such formal observance involves the assumption that a) this is, in fact, a war and b) it is by that definition an exception from the rest of our engagement with that country and that region.
We were never, if we are honest with ourselves, "lied into war".
We became steadily more aware that the option was continued collusion with Saddam or a decision to have done with him.
A much-wanted war criminal was put on public trial.
The Kurdish and Shi'ite majority was rescued from the ever-present threat of a renewed genocide.
A huge, hideous military and party apparatus, directed at internal repression and external aggression was (perhaps overhastily) dismantled.
We were already deeply involved in the life and death struggle of that country, and March 2003 happens to mark the only time that we decided to intervene, after a protracted and open public debate, on the right side and for the right reasons. This must, and still does, count for something.
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Excellent, Mr. Hutchins.
...Now if we could only get you to be as correct about God.
Well, I didn’t want to step into the second subject about the author. I too thought the article was good.
Yes, how is it that Christopher Hitchens can be so perfectly right yet so horribly wrong.
Wow! First, David Mamet sees the light. Now, Christopher Hitchens!
Saving one Lefty at a time!
What makes Hitchens different is he can be a liberal and an adult at the same time. Unique.
I know...that’s why I put it in little type ;-)
Hitchens speaks his mind. It’s not always a voice that I agree with, but as evidenced by this offering, he is at least being honest with himself. If his thoughts bring him to a conclusion, he will voice that conclusion in public.
When he agrees with conservatism on an issue, I am glad to have his views expressed to further our case.
Here he has nailed it. It is painful when he doesn’t.
Hitchens is not a liberal. He is undefineable, and a very smart human being.
“I don’t know of a satisfactory way of evaluating one against the other any more than I quite know how to balance the disgrace of Abu Ghraib, say, against the digging up of Saddam’s immense network of mass graves.”
Gee, I would think that one would be a no-brainer. I guess this proves sometimes you can have too much brain?!
I heard Christopher Hitchens on the radio once talking about Iraq and the War on Terror. I am thinking, this guy is awesome ! He is telling it like it is !
Then not long after that. I see a Christopher Hitchens on FOX NEWS talking about how stupid and ignorant it is to believe in God. and I am thinking, holy hell, Is that the same Christopher Hitchens ? It was... wow
Hitchens has always been for the war.
For the most part he’s liberal, vehemently anti Ronald Reagan. Actually to war is the only thing I can think of he is with us on. Used to make fun of GWs eyes being to close together.
He was also vehemently anti-Clinton (Bill, that is) His support for the war is based not on being a conservative, but based on his disdain for religious extremists (of all kinds).
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