Prepare for another invasion
The reports that Basra is now essentially under Taliban-style government reminded me of this Christopher Hitchens' quote (in That Post).Christopher Hitchens said to Ghassan Atiyyah: “If the Iraqis were to elect either a Sunni or Shia Taliban, we would not let them take power.” ...Hitchens had a defender, too. He had me. “I agree with Christopher,” I said. “We didn’t invade Iraq to let it turn into another Iran.”
Anyway read it all, as they say. I just read it again for the first time since January and it's impossible not to laugh out loud at least ten times. The highlights are Hitchen's juvenile habit of calling people 'sir' when he disagrees with them, Totten's what Crooked Timber called 'the opposite of epiphanies', for instance "Something I said must have got through to him, and thank God for that. He and I – truly – were on the same side. I knew it, and I’m pretty certain he knew it too" or the sublime "“Who the hell are you?” Atiyyah said to Hitchens as if I weren’t the last one to speak", but there are loads more; Totten's apparent view of Iraqis as small, cuddly animals that occasionally bite, and of course the wonderful Hitchens' closing remarks: "'Angel', he said.'Can I call you angel?'. Of course, I said. 'I want to exploit your knowledge of blogs'.In fact is all unmissable: Blog post of the year easily.
posted by Matthew @ 7/18/2005 10:00:00 PM
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