Can you recall a mental and moral collapse so swift and total as Hitch's? He is positively reveling in stupidity and craven abjection to power. Even the old ex-Trots, Burnham and (James) Rorty and Sidney Hook, maintained a certain degree of self-respect, and trod a much more tortuous path to the other side. First time is tragedy, the second, farce. jks Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">A friend writes to point out: >According to the Observer one C. Hitchens said on 28 Feb the >following: "There will be no war--there will be a fairly brief and >ruthless military intervention. The President will give an order. >[The attack] will be rapid, accurate and dazzling...It will be >greeted by the majority of the Iraqi people as an emancipation." Also, CH thought they Rep Guard would fold quickly because "no one wants to be the last to die for Saddam Hussein." Doug</BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/platinum/evt=8162/*http://platinum.yahoo.com/splash.html">Yahoo! Platinum</a> - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/platinum/evt=8162/*http://platinum.yahoo.com/splash.html">live on your desktop</a>!