the case against the case against "regime change" in Iraq

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 8:22 AM -0500 11/8/02, Nathan Newman wrote:
>You may not buy their good faith intentions to democratize Iraq or their
>ability to do so, but the argument Hitch outlines is as coherent as the
>alternative left argument of addressing the root causes of poverty and
>hopelessness.  In fact, they converge, as Hitch notes to the discomfort of
>the neoconservatives, in having to address the plight of the Palestinians.
>In the article, if you notice, Hitch is pushing his analysis not just
>hitting the Left but pointing out to the Right that their own logic forces
>attention towards dismantling the settlements and moving towards real peace
>in Palestine.

What Christopher Hitchens says is coherent, but it's been said better 
and earlier by Thomas Friedman.  When you don't get to write for the 
New York Times, however, you have to settle for Slate....
-- 
Yoshie

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