Hitch in WSJ

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 12:30 AM -0600 1/14/03, Peter K. wrote:
>>  >[So now he's writing for the WSJ's comics page! "From the left" indeed.]
>>  >
>>  >Wall Street Journal -  January 13, 2003
>>  >
>>  >COMMENTARY
>>  >AMERICAN CONSERVATISM
>>  >A View From the Left
>>  >
>>  >By CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
>>
>>Hitchens was a rotten leftist, but he may now make a fine 
>>conservative -- _if_ he is courageous enough to embrace the 
>>venerable label, that is -- a conservative in favor of secularism, 
>>civil liberties, Palestinian self-determination, and respect for 
>>history, opposed to "the featherbedding of mediocre and greedy 
>>managements" in a good old wet Tory fashion.
>>
>>Yoshie
>--
>I don't see him as a conservative. He accuses the leftist flacks for 
>Saddam and Osama as acting conservatively, i.e. cowardly.

Why equate the word "conservatively" with the word "cowardly"?  Why 
avoid the label "conservative"?  Conservatism is a venerable 
political tradition with some insights superior to liberalism's.
-- 
Yoshie

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