October 04, 2002
"Oh, what a falling off was there..."
Christopher Hitchens in The Mirror:MESSAGE FULL OF HYPOCRISY
Here are a couple of great paragraphs from this biting blast of a rant on Clintoon's warm reception this week at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool (Hitchens takes Bubba to task for his military actions or inactions, as the case might be, in Iraq, Rwanda and Kosovo):
Since I had the pleasure of watching Clinton in office every day for eight years, I hope to be excused if I was not impressed by seeing him again. How it all came back to me - the tongue ruthlessly roving the cheek; the lip-biting to indicate sincerity; the husky voice; the abject self-deprecation; the incurable habit of speaking for 20 minutes longer than he should. Most amusing, though, was how he made his own foreign policy sound more statesmanlike and judicious than it had ever been.
There probably was not a delegate present who would not have been primed to laugh at a George Dubya "cowboy" joke. Yet Mr Clinton's most notorious foreign policy action was to launch a flight of cruise missiles into the outskirts of the city of Khartoum, destroying the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory on the pretence (now acknowledged to have been false) it was a chemical weapons facility. How could such an atrocity have been committed?
Because Mr Clinton did not even demand an inspection, did not consult the UN or Congress, and over-ruled Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA and State Department.
Go read the whole piece: you won't be sorry!
Hitch, we'll bring you over to the Dark (Conservative) Side yet.
And Britain, couldn't you arrange to keep Slick, if you "fancy" him so much?
