What begins to seem "pathological" is the need to ascribe to your fantasy-enemy all the dark powers and hidden mastery of events that only Satan himself could summon, if life were a poem by John Milton. I'm no great fan of Ms. Clinton, but the truth about her role in the White House is that she didn't do much, even when it came to the vaunted health care commission. And so, even granting that by 1996 the main action in the Bosnian war was winding down, maybe there was a pot shot or two snapping off in the distance when her plan landed in Tuzla, maybe a mortar was to be sensed somewhere in the vicinity. The Clintons have shown that they have an outsize regard for Sen. McCain's military record, and they want to show that she is is the GOP nominee's equal in terms of political gravitas. Ergo procter hoc yomama, a narrative is born.

And now Hitchens, who admits mistaking where he was or what he did when he went to Bosnia prove himself the equal of Susan Sontag, attempts to purge DC's own MacBethian witch. It's too much! Let no more blowzy British jingo-pundits see the inside of the internet, ever!