[Burkeman1]

A rather refreshing honest admission by a hawk on the proposed war with Iraq and it has nothing to do with "weapons of mass destruction" or Iraq as a threat to us at all but about hegemony for the entire region with Iraq as just the first in a long list of wars and interventions.

[xm177e2]

it has nothing to do with "weapons of mass destruction" or Iraq as a threat to us

Hitch never said that.

The actual subtitle of the article was "The case against the case against "Regime Change" in Iraq," this was meant to be an argument against the anti-war critics.

In any case, just because Hitch justifies this intervention on the moral level doesn't mean hawks in Washington are thinking solely on that level. There are plenty of other reasons to go to war, and WMD is one of them.

[Bahbah]

I find the article refreshing and honest. However, I don't take from it what you do. I see it as an intelligent and thoughtful position on what preemtion is really about. I also love his vocabulary.