Mirror.co.uk - HITCHENS: WE MUST KEEP OUR NERVE

HERE we go again: first the phoney war and then the war of the phoneys. In Kuwait, in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in Afghanistan - all of the post-Cold War conflicts against regional aggressors and terror-sponsoring states - it was necessary first to endure a lengthy period of apocalyptic warnings.


If the democracies stuck up for themselves or others, there would be intensified chaos and misery, uncountable civilian casualties, intervention from other states to widen the war, legacies of bad blood, massive alienation, etc, etc.


You have read it and I have read it.


The question is - do those who have written this tripe ever dare to go back and see how wrong they were last time?[...]