Required Reading
May 16th, 2005 - 4:40 pm
Hitch:
On many occasions, the jihadists in Iraq have been very specific as well as very general. When they murdered Sergio Vieira de Mello, the brilliant and brave U.N. representative assigned to Baghdad by Kofi Annan, the terrorists’ communiqu
I posted on this over at my site. I think Bennet’s biggest issue is that he, like so many in the media, insist that these people are insurgents, when in reality they are terrorists. Once you recognize this fact, their strategy makes total sense.
Wow.
Reasonable people can disagree over the wisdom of attempting to democratize Iraq, but I am continually amazed at how little contempt – real, honest contempt – the contemprorary Left has shown for the anti-democracy fascist/theocrats that comprise the “insurgency.”
There simply could not possibly be any two groups more antithetical to everything the Left claims to value than both of the (major) players in Iraq’s “insurgency.”
Hitchen’s views make perfect sense FROM A LEFTIST POINT OF VIEW, yet he has become a pariah on the left. Bizarre.
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