"To sharpen up your intuitions in dealing with the 'we made Saddam, so we should remove him for the benefit of the Iraqis', imagine that a notorious local thief shows up on your doorstep asking for the keys to your grandmother's house, on the pretext that he wants to repair some of the damage to her guttering that he did during his last break-in. Do you act all pleased at his sudden change of heart with respect to the welfare of old ladies, or do you kick him up the arse and tell him you weren't born yesterday? Put it this way; I wouldn't like to be Christopher Hitchens' granny."
:: posted by buermann @ 2003-02-21 00:00:00 CST |
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