The Moral Argument

Hitchens has always been good at skewering those who try to pull the moral argument for staying out of Iraq. What is the phrase he used? "Morally idle." Yes, I think that explains passivity rather well.

"In other words, those who now deplore and decry the "civil war" (or the "civil wars") must, in order to be serious, admit that they would have deplored such an outcome just as much if it had not happened on America's watch or had (like Rwanda) been something that we could have pretended to watch as disinterested or—even worse—uninterested spectators."