Goddam it. I really want to hate Christopher Hitchens, and he just makes it difficult. I mean, he's still a wretched, intellectually bankrupt apologist for Communism, a bloviating Israel-hater, and the world's worst literary critic, but goddam it, he keeps getting it right on Iraq and right on the anti-war Left. Orwell he aint, much to his chagrin, but damn it if he doesn't deserve some serious credit these days.