[lit-ideas] Re: some Hitchens to raise ire

> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/28/2005 1:27:12 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: some Hitchens to raise ire
>
>
> Mike Chase: [Iraq] will be resolved when the Americans turn and run, 
> tails between their legs . . .
>
> Eric: This is Mike's solution, or what he hopes will happen. 


They're talking about exit strategies.  Now.  They're talking now. 



How 
> unhappy he will be if we don't turn and run! How miserable it will 
> make him if the Iraqis take over and run their own country! Even 
> worse, how utterly dejected he will be if the Middle East modernizes 
> and shows Islamic societies capable of advancing from postcolonial 
> bedlam and adapting to the 21st century.
>


What's good for Iraq is good for the U.S. Unfortunately, all the good stuff
in Iraq is fantasy.



> I dislike the Bush administration almost as much as Mike does, but I 
> don't want to see immense chaos merely to validate my hate. 


Nobody does.  That's just plain stupid. 


Andy Amago



And it's 
> amusing that some deem the erstwhile leftist Hitchens a "swinish 
> lacky" as soon as he stops parroting the party line. That tells me 
> Hitchens is okay as long as he's their ideological lacky, but that 
> he starts becoming swinish as soon as he has the effrontery to 
> disagree. "Don't think for yourself or you'll become a hack," says 
> the hack.
>
>


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