True, but is this kind of reaction to 9/11 as much effect as cause of a change in vision? Was Hitchens post 9/11 a bolt from the blue? A man who overcame his immense distaste for Clinton to support him on Yugoslavia - except when attacking him from the right? I can not cite chapter and verse but believe that Geras supported the first Gulf war. There is no one-to-one correspondence between positions on the two wars (see Hitchens), but why be surprised that a supporter of the first should support the second? Just for the record: last NLR that Geras was associated with as an editorial committee member was #196, Nov-Dec 1992