Is Christopher Hitchens Mental, or What?

That drunken gasbag Christopher Hitchens has a piece at Slate where he questions the sincerity of folks who did not support the aggression against Iraq.

http://www.slate.com/id/2124157/fr/nl/

He asks:

“Question: Why have several large American cities not already announced that they are going to become sister cities with Baghdad and help raise money and awareness to aid Dr. Tamimi? When I put this question to a number of serious anti-war friends, their answer was 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. I find this difficult to credit: For day after day last month I could not escape the news of the gigantic "Live 8" enterprise, which urged governments to do more along existing lines by way of debt relief and aid for Africa. Isn't there a single drop of solidarity and compassion left over for the people of Iraq, after three decades of tyranny, war, and sanctions and now an assault from the vilest movement on the face of the planet? Unless someone gives me a persuasive reason to think otherwise, my provisional conclusion is that the human rights and charitable "communities" have taken a pass on Iraq for political reasons that are not very creditable. And so we watch with detached curiosity, from dry land, to see whether the Iraqis will sink or swim. For shame.”

Christopher Hitchens is a waste of space. I doubt that he has any friends, let alone anti-war friends.

Last time I looked, no large American city or charitable organization invaded Iraq or lobbed any bombs on Baghdad. It is not the responsibility on any level for American cities or private charities to bail out the warmongering neo-con death cult and mitigate the damage they have done and are doing in Baghdad. In a better world, the warmongers would forfeit their goods and labor to rebuild Iraq and compensate their victims. Hitchens, for example, might benefit from a little honest labor like rubble removal. In our world, all Americans will have to pay and will be forced to do so at the point of a gun courtesy of the IRS even though we are not in any way responsible.

Secondly, sending money or aid to Iraq at present would be like flushing it down the toilet. I would rather flush my money down a toilet than have it go into the hands of the kleptomaniacs the USG has put in charge of things over there or the war profiteers for whom the whole thing has evidently been staged. Nine billion bucks and more have gone missing and nobody is held to account. And who knows if the rest of the money has done anyone any good other than the aforementioned kleptocrats and the profiteers? Hundreds of billions have gone down the drain and hundreds of billions more are going to be wasted, and Hitchens thinks it would be a good idea for folks to throw a few more bucks into the robbers' sack just so we can show we care.

The only intelligent thing in the whole piece would be if Hitchens meant the Bush regime when he said “the vilest movement on the face of the planet”. “We” are not watching Iraq with detached curiosity. Maybe Hitchens can do this, being a nihilist bastard, but I am praying fervently every day for the neo-con death cult to get the hell out of the way.