While I don't subscribe to using profanity and derogatory slurs, reasonable people have to agree that the subsequent turn of events included an American led invasion which decimated Iraq's cultural landscape- Shock.

And using Naomi Klein's masteful Shock Doctrine thesis that the Bush admin sought to 'shock' Iraq, dulling its senses, and then implant and nurture neo conservative, economic liberalist ideology into its "awakening" from its forced comatose. The final executive orders of J Paul Bremer, a neo con and student of Milton Friedman, included the absolute privatization of the Iraqi energy industry and education system. Neither were obeyed by the incoming Iraqi ministry, but it reflected the intent of the Bush admin.

So in that vein, Hitchens, a converted neo con, is simply proposing a pedestrian campaign which coencides with the neo con venture in Iraq.

"Ayn Rand in every Iraqi lunch box!"

While Hitchens didn't exclusively advocate works by Joseph Farah or Grover Norquist, he is implicitly including intellectual colonization of Iraq, like it or not. A 'shocked' people, numb from death and chaos, are easily convinced of new ideas. Certainly Hitler took advantage of this.