Snitch Hitchens sort of confesses to feeling something like embarrassment

[BurtWorm]

http://www.slate.com/id/2156776/pagenum/all/

The shabby, tawdry scene of Muqtada Sadr's riffraff taunting their defenseless former tyrant evokes exactly this quality of hysterical falsity and bravado. While Saddam Hussein was alive, they cringed. Now, they find their lost courage, and meanwhile take the drill and the razor blade and the blowtorch to their fellow Iraqis. To watch this abysmal spectacle as a neutral would be bad enough. To know that the U. S. government had even a silent, shamefaced part in it is to feel something well beyond embarrassment.

[wtmusic]

1. Chris had a less silent but no less shamefaced part in it

let me guess: he's a libertarian now...

[notadmblnd]

2. Must be worried about his future financial pinch.?

Seems to me if he doesn't turn tail, there'll be no more use for him. Who'll prance him around on the stage and allow him to continue tossing in his ridiculous two cents?

[BurtWorm]

3. Liquor isn't getting cheaper, after all.

:shrug:

[annabanana]

4. ?? self questioning behavior? From HITCHENS?

Oh we have encountered a tear in the space/time continuum haven't we.

[Supersedeas]

8. whatelse could he say

[endarkenment]

5. "silent, shamefaced part in it"

What the heck? He was our prisoner, a prisoner of war in fact, and we handed him over to this mob. Oh and by the way this mob is of our creation and kept in power by our guns. We are the mob.

[gratuitous]

7. I don't know what was silent or shame-faced about it

Unless we've figured out how to drop bombs and shoot guns without making any noise. And as for "shame-faced"? :wtf:

But what can one expect from a gin-soaked, former Trotskyist popinjay badly in need of a drink?

[Hamlette]

6. he says the DP should always be opposed. . .

but he's pro war. I can't get my head around that.