Apropos my recent post on the Iraq elections, Christopher Hitchens, and liberventionists generally, here’s what Hitch recently told some Iraqi guests:

If the Iraqis were to elect either a Sunni or Shia Taliban, we would not let them take power.

First, who is this “we”? Consider the epithet chickenhawk forever vindicated.

Second, you liberventionists can spare us any further BS about the sanctity of democracy – you cynical creeps don’t believe in it any more than I do. And please stop selling this line about democracy being an antidote to terrorism, illiberalism, fundamentalism, etc. You clearly don’t buy that, either.

Finally, never again protest the labels imperialist or colonialist: if “we” are to ensure Iraq’s political correctness for the rest of eternity, then that nation lacks self-determination and is by definition a colony.

Apropos my recent post on the Iraq elections, Christopher Hitchens, and liberventionists generally, here’s what Hitch recently told some Iraqi guests:

“If the Iraqis were to elect either a Sunni or Shia Taliban, we would not let them take power.”

First, who is this “we”? Consider the epithet chickenhawk forever vindicated.

Second, you liberventionists can spare us any further BS about the sanctity of democracy – you cynical creeps don’t believe in it any more than I do. And please stop selling this line about democracy being an antidote to terrorism, illiberalism, fundamentalism, etc. You clearly don’t buy it.

Finally, never again protest the labels imperialist or colonialist: if “we” are to ensure Iraq’s political correctness for the rest of eternity, then that nation lacks self-determination and is by definition a colony.