I blame Plato - he *started* it...
Wolfie's "passion for spreading democracy in the Middle East" - not in
itself an unappealing trait - would have been perfectly harmless if
he'd channelled it into playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. He
seems to have been one of those peripheral intellectuals, bit wacko,
vulnerable to flattery, who get picked up when powerful interest
groups decide they need someone to put a civilized veneer on whatever
dastardliness they happen to be about. Why someone like Hitchens
abominates Kissinger and champions Wolfowitz is a bit beyond me; the
difference I suppose is an opposing stance vis-a-vis "tyranny", but in
many respects they seem cut from the same cloth.
Dominic
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