Not to mention what has happened to Hitchens -- just by taking the OAth
of Citizenship or whatever it is?
A once rather admirable mind gone where?
Wolfowitz is just a slightly more articulate member of a crowd, all
gone bad... (& we need to hope all will someday be convicted, but I'm
not holding my breath...)
Doug
On 2-Oct-05, at 1:36 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> 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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