{"id":1786,"date":"2005-02-08T06:26:33","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T13:26:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-08T06:26:33","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T13:26:33","slug":"hitch-spills-the-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/08\/hitch-spills-the-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitch Spills the Beans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos my <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P1759_0_1_0_C>recent post<\/a> on the Iraq elections, Christopher Hitchens, and liberventionists generally, <a href=http:\/\/www.michaeltotten.com\/archives\/000730.html>here&#8217;s what Hitch recently told some Iraqi guests<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>If the Iraqis were to elect either a Sunni or Shia Taliban, we would not let them take power.<\/ul>\n<p>First, who is this &#8220;we&#8221;? Consider the epithet <i>chickenhawk<\/i> forever vindicated.<\/p>\n<p>Second, you liberventionists can spare us any further BS about the sanctity of democracy \u2013 you cynical creeps don&#8217;t believe in it any more than I do. And please stop selling this line about democracy being an antidote to terrorism, illiberalism, fundamentalism, etc. You clearly don&#8217;t buy that, either.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, never again protest the labels <i>imperialist<\/i> or <i>colonialist<\/i>: if &#8220;we&#8221; are to ensure Iraq&#8217;s political correctness for the rest of eternity, then that nation lacks self-determination and is by definition a colony. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos my recent post on the Iraq elections, Christopher Hitchens, and liberventionists generally, here&#8217;s what Hitch recently told some Iraqi guests: If the Iraqis were to elect either a Sunni or Shia Taliban, we would not let them take power. First, who is this &#8220;we&#8221;? Consider the epithet chickenhawk forever vindicated. Second, you liberventionists can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}