Run, Al, Run
25th September 2007
Christopher Hitchens is always entertaining, even when he’s wrong — which isn’t all that often.
Americans could also choose a complete crook like Richard Nixon, or a complete moron like Jimmy Carter, and we still had to watch our local politicians genuflect to the so-called Atlantic alliance.
And that really tells you all you need to know about American politics.
Don’t ask what a campaign against global warming has done for “peace”; that would be like asking what Mother Teresa or Henry Kissinger had ever done to reduce global conflict. The impression is the main thing.
And that really tells you all you need to know about European politics.