My Very First Hitchens Post
People on both the left and right get all atwitter about everything Christopher Hitchens says, but I think I’m young enough that I missed whatever got them interested. But among an excellent Reason.com feature on libertarian Iraq War supporters, I find him saying this:
So we’re going to make Iraq a war-torn terrorist hellhole but, god dammit, it’s going to be a LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC war-torn terrorist hellhole.The United States and its allies should continue to stand for federal democracy, while making Iraq a killing-field for jihadists and fascists and a training ground for an army that will need to intervene again in other failed state/rogue state contexts.