Christopher Hitchens on Iraq
Christopher Hitchens is one of my favorite liberal commentators. He’s a true “Liberal’s Liberal” in that his liberalism is ideological by nature, and not simply the liberalism of opposition that has become so prevalent in today’s politics. He wasn’t afraid to stand up and point out that Bill Clinton was a useless liberal, in that he made a lot of liberal promises, but rarely followed through with them. Now, he’s laying out his views on Iraq. They’re worth reading
It never seemed to me that there was any alternative to confronting the reality of Iraq, which was already on the verge of implosion and might, if left to rot and crash, have become to the region what the Congo is to Central Africa: a vortex of chaos and misery that would draw in opportunistic interventions from Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Bad as Iraq may look now, it is nothing to what it would have become without the steadying influence of coalition forces. None of the many blunders in postwar planning make any essential difference to that conclusion. Indeed, by drawing attention to the ruined condition of the Iraqi society and its infrastructure, they serve to reinforce the point.
Go and read the whole thing. In fact, if you don’t read Hitchens regularly, you should start. Even when I think he’s wrong, which happens frequently, he bases his views in a well-thought-out belief structure which is usually absent among the left in America.
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