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January 31, 2005
Iraq, Vietnam, and Dead Parrots
Christopher Hitchens points out here how the Iraq War is pretty much the opposite of the Vietnam War. And he quotes Monty Python: "I suppose it's obvious that I was not a supporter of the Vietnam War. Indeed, the principles of the antiwar movement of that epoch still mean a good deal to me. That's why I retch every time I hear these principles recycled, by narrow minds or in a shallow manner, in order to pass off third-rate excuses for Baathism or jihadism. But one must also be capable of being offended objectively. The Vietnam/Iraq babble is, from any point of view, a busted flush. It's no good. It's a stiff. It's passed on. It has ceased to be. It's joined the choir invisible. It's turned up its toes. It's gone. It's an ex-analogy."
Posted by Pete at January 31, 2005 05:14 PM
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