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>'[T]he bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face,
>and there's no point in any euphemism about it. What they abominate
>about "the West," to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals
>don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do
>like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific
>inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.'
This is actually a close variation on Bush's claim, viz. "They hate us
because we're free, because we're a beacon to the world..." etc etc etc.
The whole things fits neatly into the well-established Hitchens genre of
fake iconoclasm, rolling out a safe, jingoistic, opportunistic apologia for
Imperialism and pretending he's courageously slaying some big dragon of
untruth or conceit nursed by "fellow" leftists. None of the people he's
turding on were "rationalizing" the actions in question, nor issuing their
statements with a view to elucidating Mideast politics for Hitchens and his
crowd of snooty-toot friends. It's all just pure shadow-boxing - we're not
supposed to notice that (as usual) he's taking the Administration's line.
For all the efforts of this pompous tosser to manicure some reputation for
himself as an anti-imperialist friend of Arab peoples, his rotten political
stances have by no means been limited to the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and
Central America. He lined up with Jesse Helms and the Republican Right to
press the demand for "military exclusion zones" in Iraq, the territory
therein to be administered by the U.S.-backed and -funded Iraqi National
Congress exile group, the "exclusion" of Iraq's forces from it's own
sovereign territory to be ensured and policed by U.S. firepower, of course.
And if Iraq were to say no to this perfectly reasonable demand, well, more
bombs, more babies who won't live very long, etc. See here:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7891/bushbomb_cp.html
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