Christopher Hitchens has been berating fellow leftists (I suppose present company is included) for even thinking that the WTC/Pentagon attacks had anything to do with what the US has done in the Middle East.
Let’s pause a moment to appreciate Mr. Hitchens in action.
And this is precisely, now, our problem. The Taliban and its surrogates are not content to immiserate their own societies in beggary and serfdom. They are condemned, and they deludedly believe that they are commanded, to spread the contagion and to visit hell upon the unrighteous. The very first step that we must take, therefore, is the acquisition of enough self-respect and self- confidence to say that we have met an enemy and that he is not us, but someone else. Someone with whom coexistence is, fortunately I think, not possible. (I say “fortunately” because I am also convinced that such coexistence is not desirable).
Later in the column, he does take Clinton, Pere Bush, and the current Bush to task, but for not dealing with what he calls “Islamic Fascism” sooner.
