Hitchens on single standards

[ravi]

Justin Schwartz wrote:
>> What else would you call those who felt that the al-Qaeda/Taliban
>> gangsters
>> should have been left alone? Appeasers? Cowards? Moral idiots?
>> Certainly not
>> "progressives."
>>

i think brad delong introduced the technical term "malignant fuck".


> Anti-imperialists. Count me in as one of those appeasers, moral idiots,
> and cowards. I did think that it was proper to conduct a police
> investigation and effect an extradition and arrest of ObL or anyone for
> whom there was probable cause to believe that he'd committed a crime.

yes, i am another "malignant fuck" or moral idiot too, if the
choice is exclusively between carrying out war on the people of
afghanistan and doing nothing, for i prefer the latter.

	--ravi