27 August 2005
Hitchens, cont'd.
Christopher Hitchens authored another compelling work making the moral case for the Iraq War. In this week's Weekly Standard, in an article titled, A War to Be Proud Of, Hitchens again enumerates the several failures of the progressive forces in international relations to prevent genocide in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, and several instances of pure dictatorial aggression throughout the 1990's. After such failures, Hitchens ponders, as Freedom & Progress often does, how any progressive-minded thinker can truly believe that America is a bigger threat to universal human rights than Saddam Hussein.
Hitchens also lists the many improvements in Iraq in the post-Hussein era and wonders aloud why the Bush Administration cannot make as compelling a case as he. Indeed, Freedom & Progress often wonders the same thing.
However, Mr. Hitchens brings it all home in the conclusion of his latest piece:
Coexistence with aggressive regimes or expansionist, theocratic, and totalitarian ideologies is not in fact possible. One should welcome this conclusion for the additional reason that such coexistence is not desirable, either. If the great effort to remake Iraq as a demilitarized federal and secular democracy should fail or be defeated, I shall lose sleep for the rest of my life in reproaching myself for doing too little. But at least I shall have the comfort of not having offered, so far as I can recall, any word or deed that contributed to a defeat.
Thank you Mr. Hitchens, and like you, we here at Freedom & Progress will keep on fighting the good fight. Contributing what we can, in this war that we can be proud of.
Hitchens also lists the many improvements in Iraq in the post-Hussein era and wonders aloud why the Bush Administration cannot make as compelling a case as he. Indeed, Freedom & Progress often wonders the same thing.
However, Mr. Hitchens brings it all home in the conclusion of his latest piece:
Coexistence with aggressive regimes or expansionist, theocratic, and totalitarian ideologies is not in fact possible. One should welcome this conclusion for the additional reason that such coexistence is not desirable, either. If the great effort to remake Iraq as a demilitarized federal and secular democracy should fail or be defeated, I shall lose sleep for the rest of my life in reproaching myself for doing too little. But at least I shall have the comfort of not having offered, so far as I can recall, any word or deed that contributed to a defeat.
Thank you Mr. Hitchens, and like you, we here at Freedom & Progress will keep on fighting the good fight. Contributing what we can, in this war that we can be proud of.
# posted by Publicola @ 12:57 PM 
