Kamm gets pwned
Oliver Kamm is getting desperate. He is a good blogger. He has a tendency to sound like the most pompous bloke in the room, but his posts are always elegantly written and packed full of interesting facts. But he really needs to give up on the neo-conservatism. His latest post, which is an attempt to call into question Johann Hari's spot on reading of neo-conservatism here, is the work of a man who is trying to cover up his horrendous misjudgement by nit-picking and needless pedantry. The elephant in Kamm's room is a huge number of dead Iraqis and a failed state swamped with terrorist nutters.
Kamm was wrong, about the whole thing. I think he needs to get of his high horse and admit that, before he digs himself any deeper into a hole. Maybe its harder to do that when you are as obviously amazingly intelligent (he speaks German! and French!) as Kamm is, I wouldn't know. But what I do know is that the invasion he (and I, at the time) backed has killed 500,000+ people.
He can quote as many books about the debates in US foreign policy as he likes, but it doesn't change the facts about Iraq, and about the stupid, stupid bunch of callous psychopaths who launched it. Their incompetence really is breathtaking - I should know, for some reason I've decided to write my dissertation on the whole bloody mess.
-posted by Adam
And who might that be? The "neocons" or the "coalition of the willing"?
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