Hitchens on the U.S. Role in the World

january 21, 2003  10:14 am
Hitchens on the U.S. Role in the World
Saddam's crimes, al Qaeda massacres, Kurdish freedom, oil worth fighting for... and a few other things "potluck peaceniks" might want to think about when they gather to protest the imminent war with Iraq, courtesy of columnist Christopher Hitchens. "The government and people of these United States are now at war with the forces of reaction," Hitchens writes in The Stranger. Even when faced with the the genocidal record of Saddam Hussein's regime, "nothing seems to disturb the contented air of moral superiority that surrounds those who intone the 'peace movement.,'" he says.