Hitchens is mad (as if he is capable of any other state of mind) because liberals apparently literally believed the soldiers would be greeted with rose-petals. Yeah, that's right, we liberals live in the Land Without Metaphor.
On the one hand, Hitchens engages in all that wonderful retrofitting-of-the-rationale that's been going on ever since it started becoming clear that the "great WMD threat" was about that of a pop-gun; on the other hand, Hitchens's case reduces to "None of your worst-case scenarios came true", as if every liberal truly believed that those scenarios were inevitable, as opposed to merely possible. But then, Hitchens in my experience isn't one for nuance. After all, why clean the Ming vase with a fine brush when a sandblaster would get the job done in a fraction of the time?
I have a feeling that if Hitchens wrote an article about why The Phantom Menace is a great movie, I'd end up disagreeing just by his sheer idiocy and tone.
(via Morat)
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