Hitch gloats (like a fool)

[Brad DeLong]

>...you've seen the UNICEF, WHO reports, etc. about the apocalyptic rise in
>child and maternal mortality, malnutrition, water-borne illnesses,
>educational breakdown and social dislocation in Iraq. As a rare economist
>who gives weight to such indices, how can you say the situation in the
>Persian Gulf is better now than if the war and embargo hadn't happened?
>
>Seth

It was reading Dilip Hiro's _The Longest War_ that led me to this 
judgment. The alternative futures I see if Saddam Hussein had been 
left in undisturbed possession of Kuwait are bleak indeed...

Brad Delong