In the past couple of months, as the Bush administration flogs its plans for war against Saddam Hussein, a flurry of commentators, most notably Christopher Hitchens of Vanity Fair and David Brooks of The Weekly Standard, have taken the left to task for its opposition to the war. Hitchens smothers “peaceniks,” “peace-mongers” and “Ramadanistas” with rhetorical meringue, sweet but insubstantial blather… return to article
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