Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Christopher Hitchens Newsnight.30th May 2006

The Dude has just drawn attention to a previously unknown reason (to me anyway) for the Iraq fiasco. Apparently if The US and it's coalition partners hadn't invaded Iraq then Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia would have invaded.

1 Comments:

Blogger Sonic said...

been an argument of his for a while.

When it became obvious that the meme of Iraq as a deadly dangerous totaliarian regime bent on world conquest fell apart, Christopher was the first to argue the alternative that it was in fact a weak state that was bound to fall apart at some time leding to all out war in the ME as Turkey and Iran invaded it.

5/30/2006 11:34:00 PM  

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