Hilary Clinton will make a great President, and it is only a matter of time now before that happens. I speak as the American who picked both her and Ronald Reagan for the job, so I think I know what I am talking about. Supporters of Obama and McCain will just have to get used to my choice of Hilary for President, just as I have had to accommodate myself to eight years of your own Bush White House shenanigans and tomfoolery.
As to the Sarajevo tragedy, which involved a several years' long "ethnic cleansing" or mass murder of religious Muslims by Russian Orthodox Serbs, honestly, Hitch, looking back from our present day vantage point, and no insult intended to you, but I would have certainly thought you were "down" or okay with that, for sure, especially given your ceaseless diatribes and rants against religion and God generally, and against "fundamentalist Muslim culture specifically. That people are just people like you and me, seems to have strangely struck you like a bolt of Zeus lightening from the skies, as regards the people of Sarajevo. How you resolve this strange discordance or inconsistency in your own proffered viewpoints, I do not presume to know.
I remember Sarajevo from the televised coverage of a Winter Olympics hosted there in the late 1960s or early 1970s. It was a very fine and hospitable place, and its civic spirit sallied forth across the medium of television into my own home and warmed my heart with a sense of their humanity and community. That Bill Clinton failed to act to save them with American military power, is a major tragedy of American foreign policy, and might well be attributable to Warren Christopher among others.
However, here in New Hampshire a few months ago, when I was paying close attention to Hilary Clinton's campaign for her Party's nomination for the U.S. Presidency, she specifically offered that she and a few others had tried to pursuade Bill Clinton to intervene in Bosnia/Herzegovena, specifically in Sarajevo, I believe. The arguments of others won out, and President Bill Clinton failed to act. That Hilary lost that one, does not disqualify her to be our President. On the contrary, it is a lesson she seems to have learned quite well, and she clearly and steadfastly owns up to it, even to you, I would presume, if you were to ask her about it.
So then, with this correction to the historical record as you offer it, can you elucidate your claim, that both Bill and Hilary were opposed to saving Sarajevo for a 2-year period, while Hilary's proposed health care domestic reform was percolating through the American political engine of domestic change?
Your assertion that domestic politics holds hostage foreign courses of action, did not apply to Nixon during Watergate, and does not apply to your rendering of Hilary Clinton in your typical, pro-White House screed today.
As to truthfulness as the standard by which we judge politicians like the Clintons and flak artists such as yourself, I think you know better. If you do not, let me clue you, that truthfulness in politics is a little boy's standard, but certainly not my own, or not the standard for affairs of state.
For just one example, Mr. Hitchens, please be advised that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, according to the biographies and history books, was a congenital liar. British leadership itself has proven itself no slouch in the arts of deception, say, vis a vis Germany, France, Italy, the Americans, the Egyptions, India, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and no telling how many more examples.
FDR was among our greatest U.S. Presidents, certainly the greatest of the 20th Century. So then, Hitch, thanks for prequalifying Hilary for the job today with your unintended endorsement. You the Man, Hitch my Boy!
