After having led cheers in 2002 and 2003 for the planned Iraq invasion, Christopher Hitchens may be trying to rehabilitate himself among the friends he had before losing his mind. It's a start . . .
I'm nostalgic for a president who didn't sweat the details, who let his senior staff do all the heavy intellectual lifting, who made no attempt to hide his disdain for people who don't share his narrow view of right and wrong, who had a reckless disregard for the truth, who was way too quick to resort to belligerence and force in addressing international conflicts, who . . . Oh, who am I kidding? It's still the 1980s, just without the jobs.
Posted by Vernam at June 7, 2004 09:21 PM | TrackBack