[lit-ideas] Re: some Hitchens to raise ire
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:24:01 -0400
> [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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