World's Smartest Person Explains, But Is Anyone Listening?

Christopher Hitchens, who genuinely deserves the motto of this blog, offers a typically erudite and scathing explanation--once again--of the necessity for the Iraq War. A brief quotation, to whet the appetite:

This state--Saddam's ruined and tortured and collapsing Iraq--had also met all the conditions under which a country may be deemed to have sacrificed its own legal sovereignty. To recapitulate: It had invaded its neighbors, committed genocide on its own soil, harbored and nurtured international thugs and killers, and flouted every provision of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United Nations, in this crisis, faced with regular insult to its own resolutions and its own character, had managed to set up a system of sanctions-based mutual corruption. In May 2003, had things gone on as they had been going, Saddam Hussein would have been due to fill Iraq's slot as chair of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament. Meanwhile, every species of gangster from the hero of the Achille Lauro hijacking to Abu Musab al Zarqawi was finding hospitality under Saddam's crumbling roof.

SWNID happily points gentle readers to this piece. But SWNID wonders whether anyone cares any more, SWNID readers excepted. The American attention span has been exhausted, it seems. Iraq and global jihad must go away.

Well, Hitchens knows that they won't. Let's hope that someone is listening.