October 26, 2004

The Nation Endorses Bush

Kidding! But I will second Andrew Sullivan's Kudos to the leftist rag for publishing Christopher Hitchens's Why I'm (Slightly) for Bush

I could obviously take refuge in saying that I was a Blair supporter rather than a Bush endorser, and I am in fact a member of a small international regime-change "left" that originates in solidarity with our embattled brothers and sisters in Afghanistan and Iraq, brave people who have received zero support from the American "antiwar" movement. I won't even consider any reconsideration, at least until Islamist websites start posting items that ask themselves, and not us: Can we go on taking such casualties? Have our tactics been too hideous and too stupid? Only then can anything like a negotiation begin. (Something somewhat analogous may be true, and I say it with agony, about the Israel-Palestine dispute, which stands a very slightly better chance of a decent settlement if an almost uncritically pro-Israeli Democrat is not elected.)

UPDATE: In a less serious blurb in Slate, Hitch endorses Kerry. Two Americas, perhaps?

Posted by jk at October 26, 2004 05:00 PM
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