The Wrath of Khan
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 # posted by FGFM : 10:18 AM Via our Scandinavian correspondent, Lubna Qureshi: A few weeks ago, I reviewed Stephen Fry’s tribute to Christopher Hitchens. When I came across George Eaton’s own review afterward, I realized that he had caught an important moment missed by me: “’More Bosnia, less Iraq,’ he [Hitchens] wrote in a text message to Fry. It felt as if he was trying to edit his own obituary. As he told the New Statesman, though he is unrepentant about his support for the invasion of Iraq and believes that history will vindicate him, he does not want to be ‘defined by it’. His reference to Bosnia was an attempt to place his support for the war in the context of a wider commitment to anti-totalitarianism. It was also a war that saved Muslim lives, rather than ended them.” http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2011/11/hitchens-remembered-polemicist If Hitchens feels guilty about his endorsement of the Iraq War, then he should extend that guilt to...