Chomsky/Hitchens/Milosevic/Bush

[Carvill John]

Not wantng to open up a whole cannery of worms, but.... Here's a very interesting article re. Christopher Hitchens, and his surprising support for the Iraq invasion. I disagree with him,and of course there is no comparison between Bosnia and Iraq, but he has a lot of sensible things to say about how politics makes for strange bedfellows, and how some on the Left find themselves supporting Fascists:
 
 
"It was a time when many people on the left were saying 'Don't intervene, we'll only make things worse' or, 'Don't intervene, it might destabilise the region.'", he continues. "And I thought - destabilisation of fascist regimes is a good thing. Why should the left care about the stability of undemocratic regimes? Wasn't it a good thing to destabilise the regime of General Franco?"
 
"It was a time when the left was mostly taking the conservative, status quo position - leave the Balkans alone, leave Milosevic alone, do nothing. And that kind of conservatism can easily mutate into actual support for the aggressors. Weimar-style conservatism can easily mutate into National Socialism," he elaborates. "So you had people like Noam Chomsky's co-author Ed Herman go from saying 'Do nothing in the Balkans', to actually supporting Milosevic, the most reactionary force in the region."
 
 
http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=450
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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