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A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq QUOTES

A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq QUOTES

1 " At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be. "

― Christopher Hitchens , A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq

2 " Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.) "

― Christopher Hitchens , A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq

3 " The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women? "

― Christopher Hitchens , A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq