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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Wednesday, April 02, 2003
A fresh batch of steaming Hitchens dung in today's Mirror. A point-by-point demonstration of the man's deceptive and outright fraudulent claims would be just as wearisome for me to write as it would be for you to read; let's spare ourselves. A point nonetheless:
There is no friendly or neutral country to serve as a rearguard, as there is in the case of Jordan and Kuwait, because the fools who run today's Turkey couldn't even be bribed to act in their own self-interest.
In a parliamentary democracy such as Turkey, Christopher, those "fools" are, of course, the people. It gladdens me to see you register such esteem for democracy, it, after all, being the latest rationale/rationalization for the current war.