I'd say Christopher Hitchens has a pretty clear understanding of his own role in the public debate on Iraq:
Most of the leftists I know are hoping openly or secretly to leverage difficulty in Iraq in order to defeat George Bush. For innumerable reasons, including the one I cited earlier, I think that this is a tactic and a mentality utterly damned by any standard of history or morality. What I mainly do is try to rub that in.
I never know quite what to think of Hitchens. That nasty temperament of his always makes me step back a bit and brace myself before reading anything he has to say.
Posted by: Dean Esmay at December 16, 2003 07:16 AM