Hitchens on single standards

[Brad DeLong]

>>So, you'd rather see millions starve under the Taliban, which was quite
>>possible, than having that famine averted, as Oxfam reported in January?
>>You'd rather watch half of Afghanistan's population be turned into slaves
>>and executed in soccer stadiums? Hell, even RAWA conceded in its recent
>>statement that there's more room now for their efforts than under the
>>"wolves" of the Taliban. Do you really believe it would have benefited the
>>people of Afghanistan if we had done nothing?
>>
>>DP
>
>You do see, don't you, that this is a license for endless 
>intervention everywhere against all regimes that don't live up to 
>our high moral standards. And it cuts several ways: on the basis of 
>this, youcan hardly object if al-Qaida decides to rain death on the 
>infidel, which promotes evil un-Islamic values everywhere.
>
>jks

Oh, we can certainly object to anyone who thinks that Al-Qaeda ought 
to guarantee every country an Islamic form of government. But I, for 
one, would not object to a U.N. that guaranteed every country a 
republican from of government.

Brad DeLong