Hitch on Baker & Kissinger

[derrida]

So Hitchens is saying that the problem with Iraq today is that it is scarred by the intra-war decade and is host to a "disaffected underclass." He also appears to scoff at the notion that a greater invasion force would have resulted in victory. Wouldn't a greater invasion force have provided enough initial internal security to quickly establish a co-operative government and begin the conversion of Hussein's army (the enlisted ranks of which having being comprised of that very underclass?