In the latest Vanity Fair magazine, there’s a particularly offensive
article by Christopher Hitchens on Mark Daily, an American soldier who
was killed by a roadside bomb in Mosul, Iraq. Hitchens had learned from
an LA Times article forwarded by one of his few remaining friends that
Daily was inspired to enlist after reading Hitchens. Since the article
no longer appears to be available on the LA Times archives, I am making
it available here:
The article states:
"After the 9/11 attacks, Daily was not convinced that a military
response was the best option. In his MySpace essay, he runs through the
gamut of reasons he used at one time or another to argue against
confronting the Taliban and Saddam Hussein: cultural tolerance, the
sanctity of national sovereignty, a suspicion of America’s intentions.
Weren’t we really after their oil? he wondered."
Too bad that Daily didn’t live long enough to read Alan Greenspan’s
memoir. He might have saved his family a lot of grief and Hitchens the
opportunity to grandstand in the pages of Vanity Fair.
full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/the-death-of-mark-daily/
