Christopher Hitchens Anti-War, My Foot: The Phony Peacniks Who Protested in Washington
Excerpt:
"The name of the reporter on this story was Michael Janofsky. I suppose
that it is possible that he has never before come across "International
ANSWER," the group run by the "Worker's World" party and fronted by
Ramsey Clark, which openly supports Kim Jong-il, Fidel Castro, Slobodan
Milosevic, and the "resistance" in Afghanistan and Iraq, with Clark
himself finding extra time to volunteer as attorney for the génocidaires
in Rwanda. Quite a "wide range of progressive political objectives"
indeed, if that's the sort of thing you like. However, a dip into any
database could have furnished Janofsky with well-researched and
well-written articles by David Corn and Marc Cooper—to mention only two
radical left journalists—who have exposed "International ANSWER" as a
front for (depending on the day of the week) fascism, Stalinism, and
jihadism."
...
"To be against war and militarism, in the tradition of Rosa Luxemburg
and Karl Liebknecht, is one thing. But to have a record of consistent support
for war and militarism, from the Red Army in Eastern Europe to the
Serbian ethnic cleansers and the Taliban, is quite another. It is
really a disgrace that the liberal press refers to such enemies of
liberalism as "antiwar" when in reality they are straight-out pro-war,
but on the other side. Was there a single placard saying, "No to
Jihad"? Of course not. Or a single placard saying, "Yes to Kurdish
self-determination" or "We support Afghan women's struggle"? Don't make
me laugh. And this in a week when Afghans went back to the polls, and
when Iraqis were preparing to do so, under a hail of fire from those
who blow up mosques and U.N. buildings, behead aid workers and
journalists, proclaim fatwahs against the wrong kind of Muslim, and utter hysterical diatribes against Jews and Hindus."
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