For a really interesting perspective on the evolution of the LEft from early 1960's socialism to the present, read Christopher Hitchen's autobiography, "Hitch-22".

Among many other things he comes up with a clearer defense for the Iraq war than anyone in the administration ever did. And while I hated and still hatet the war and consider it a gross failure of diplomacy and imagination, I am much less rancorous toward Wolfowitz and co., than I was before reading Hitchen's reports.


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