March 27, 2003
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS in the Daily
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS in the Daily Mirror:
Here we go again: first the phoney war and then the war of the phoneys. In Kuwait, in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in Afghanistan - all of the post-Cold War conflicts against regional aggressors and terror-sponsoring states - it was necessary first to endure a lengthy period of apocalyptic warnings.
If the democracies stuck up for themselves or others, there would be intensified chaos and misery, uncountable civilian casualties, intervention from other states to widen the war, legacies of bad blood, massive alienation, etc, etc.
You have read it and I have read it.
The question is - do those who have written this tripe ever dare to go back and see how wrong they were last time?
And Guy Rundle in the
Melbourne Age:
Posted by Tim Blair at March 27, 2003 02:49 PMWith no sign that the regime will collapse it seems that, one way or another, slaughter is coming.
Before it does, the brief burst of support for our troops may melt away, with the sudden realisation that we have become the bad guys.