[lbo-talk] Hitchens inches toward saying he was wrong

[Michael Pollak]

He's churlish and begrudging about it, but still: Bremer's Kissinger
connection seems to have unnerved him:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2083643/

In the last paragraph he is still insisting that the real point of the war
was to fulfill his fantasies, and everyone who thinks differently is
simply missing this essential point.

But he also hints at what makes his fantasy different from the
imperialists: he seems to be for chaos.  It sounds like he's almost
wishing for Kurdish nationalism to tear the region apart.  It's as if he's
high on the distilled vapors of a faith in the cleansing power of violent
revolution.

Michael