Matt T

Sliding further...

Hitchens (the pro-war right-winger, not the anti-war one) slides further in his latest column.

I don't know why, but recently (unless it's been about Chalabi) Hitchens has given the impression of next-to-know curiousity, instead saying things like 'I don't know, and neither reader do you'). The sames goes in this column, in which he makes no effort whatsoever to decide whether the Swift Veterans for the Unvarnished Truth are lying or not.

The rest of the piece is about the rights and wrongs of Vietnam, which really just brings to the fore Hitchens' troubles with this issue. He wants to justify his support for the Vietcong whilst defending his support for Bush's invasion of Iraq. This reduces him to idiotic comments such as:

The Vietnamese were a very civilized foe

which of course is not quite how it was. Instead of this ridiculous inability to ever admit he was wrong, I think Kerry's position is rather sound. He did his duty and fought for his country, then realised what a terrible mess it all was and spoke out about it. It's sad that American politics is so infantile that he now has to publicise it for all it's worth, but he's hardly alone here.

posted by Matthew @ 8/24/2004 12:26:00 PM Comments: 0