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<DIV>Hitch's younger bro takes the antiwar Tory stance. </DIV>
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<DIV>"This war was always different from those that have gone before. Previous
conflicts in the modern age, even if usually caused by failures of deterrence,
and even if they extended the power of the state, did at least have the virtue
of being in British interests, because if we did not fight them we would be
ruined, subjugated or fatally humbled. This one is so hard to justify that its
supporters treat their own arguments with scorn, wanly grinding out cant phrases
that long ago lost their meaning, trying to frighten us with bogeymen or
pretending grotesquely that liberty and civilisation can be imposed on
Mesopotamia with explosives. <BR><BR>"The idea that naked force can create human
freedom is itself a left-wing idea. Even more socialist are the war faction’s
contempt for the sovereignty of nations and their unashamed belief that ends
justify means. No wonder that the war’s hottest-eyed supporters on both sides of
the Atlantic are ex-Marxists who have lost their faith but have yet to lose
their Leninist tendency to worship worldly power. Yet ranged alongside them are
Tories who are supposed to stand for the gentler and more modest cause of faith
and nation, Church and King." </DIV>
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href="http://www.antiwar.com/spectator/spec6.html">http://www.antiwar.com/spectator/spec6.html</A>></DIV>
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