Hitch

[Bradford DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>"Suppose, Mr. Hitchens, that we succeed by 2005 in hanging the last 
>>Oil Sheik with the guts of the last Fundamentalist Mullah. Will we 
>>then have achieved Utopia? If not, what would you put next on the 
>>agenda?"
>
>How would you answer that? Are you for a war on Iraq?
>
>Doug

I don't know.

Saddam Hussein has been effectively "contained" for the past 
decade--deterrence and "containment" do seem to work almost all the 
time, after all. But I don't like what "containment" does to the 
people of Iraq at all. And I am scared of what Saddam Hussein might 
do--I mean, launching two aggressive wars against neighbors is not 
confidence building, is it?

Brad DeLong