A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste

In the case of Christopher Hitchens, we could also add the Dan Quayle corollary, "A mind is a terrible thing to have. Or not to have a mind at all."

The gin soaked popinjay gave further indication that he's gone off the deep end with this ridiculous screed, nicely summarized by No More Mister Nice Blog as "If the Iraq war ultimately fails, it's American liberals' fault for not cleaning up the mess my hero George W. Bush made."

Snitch goes on to suggest that the answer in Iraq is as simple as large American cities twinning with Baghdad, followed by a spate of charitable giving. He goes on to note that his "serious anti-war friends" (does he have friends, as in plural, anymore?) reply that "to the effect that it's the job of the administration to allocate the money, so that there's little room or need for civic action."

Um, Christopher, regardless of what your "friends" think, the reality is that Iraq has turned into such a hellhole that the very suggestion that we're but a few goodwill gestures from making Iraq a model democracy is simply stupid--and more than a little pathetic.