christopher hitchens has lost his mind...

I used to respect Hitchens. The Trials of Henry Kissenger was brilliant. But all this mess he's been talking about how great the war in iraq is and how successful its been have really been irking me. And now i think he's gone competely crazy

His latest article in the weekly standard

an excerpt from that article:
" I am one of those who believe, uncynically, that Osama bin Laden did us all a service (and holy war a great disservice) by his mad decision to assault the American homeland four years ago. Had he not made this world-historical mistake, we would have been able to add a Talibanized and nuclear-armed Pakistan to our list of the threats we failed to recognize in time. (This threat still exists, but it is no longer so casually overlooked.)"


edited for spelling




[Edited on Aug 31, 2005 by Electra]

yeah, this is pretty disgusting.

He's got a point. What if they had the discipline to wait until they had nukes and smuggled them into the US? You'd have a situation not unlike what's happening in New Orleans today, only in New York City, and no way of knowing if he had any more. It's not like we were going to aggressively go after him beforehand. And the invasion of Iraq was in part to help ensure Bin Laden wouldn't be able to use Saddam Hussein as an avenue to acquire nukes of other WMDs in the future. The crazy thing would just to sit back and pray that wouldn't happen.

Any more hurricanes?

No one seems to be going aggressively after him now.

shhhhh! you aren't supposed to remember that.

Osama was going to hurricane New YorK?

You still aren't going after him aggresively. Even when you were you couldn't get him. So you gave up and went after Saddam. By the way... I'm still waiting for the proof of WMDs and the connection between Saddam and Bin Laden.

He was on the daily show recently and was pretty much babbling incoherently the whole time.

He makes a lot of really good (or at least interesting) points, especially when he states that, left alone, Iraq might have degenerated into further instability and been divided up by its neighbors anyway.

I have always felt that there is something to be said for the idea of Iraq as a "keystone of the Middle East," as he calls it. If the United States was to do something proactive to bring stability to the region, 2003 was the time to do something and Iraq was the place to do it.

But Hitchens expresses my own misgivings perfectly here:

And I think that the sad answer is: there is a good chance that the White House just doesn't understand all of this. Christopher Hitchens makes so many good points about the war because Christopher Hitchens is smarter than George Bush.

In the end though, it's a fact that we have long since passed the point of no return in Iraq. Until some semblance of stability has returned, there's no way we can pull out.

Oh, by the way:

sounds WAY hot.

Mabey Osama recruited the Flash villan, Weather Wizard.

exactly!