Where do you stand in the new culture wars? – Times Online
Yet another commentator pointing out what strange bedfellows anti ‘war in Iraq’ liberals and Islamic fundamentalists make. It’s pretty self evident that this kind of respectful relativism can be ridiculous. Hitchens, though, isn’t immune to inconsistency; a one time apologist for Republican dumbness, his ‘positions’ require close scrutiny – for all their rhetorical artistry.
- Afghanistan: ok.
- Nation building in Iraq without a decent plan premised on a dodgy dossier, sans UN backing: a neo-con fantasy.
Listening to the news on Radio 4 this evening, it was reported that the US has spent $1.6 trillion on fighting its campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, a cost of something like $20k per household.
Bush may hang tough for the duration of his term, but as soon as his successor gets his (or her) feet under the table at the Oval office, it’s going to be ‘go fetch me the exit strategy handbook on the double’.
