Kesher Talk

Liberal hawks assess the invasion of Iraq. Charter members of the "I-Can't-Believe-I'm-a-Hawk Club" - Paul Berman, Thomas Friedman, Christopher Hitchens, Fred Kaplan, George Packer, Kenneth M. Pollack, and Fareed Zakaria - argue about the results all week.

Pollack comments first. He comes out more favorably toward the war than you would think from his article in the Atlantic.

UPDATE: Part Two. Hitch steps up to the plate and hits it out of the park. Then Fred Kaplan strikes out with tiresome antiwar cliches about unilateralism, no WMDs, and the hypocrisy of only taking out one megalomaniac dictator at a time. Then Paul Berman hits another one out of the park. Hitch and Berman get what the larger strategy and goals are, Kaplan niggles about details (which he gets wrong).

UPDATE: Part Three. Packer, Kaplan, and Berman agree that Bush did a terrible job doing something that needed to be done, but don't come up with any concrete ideas for how it could have been done differently. Berman in particular is cheesed that the Right stole the Left's thunder.

posted by Judith @ 1/13/2004 05:10:25 PM