I Feel Your Pain, Equivalently

There are a couple of interesting articles at Slate today. One is a column by Christopher Hitchens, enraged by Noam Chomsky's recent remarks on the assassination of Bin Laden, and -- typically for Hitchens when he talks about Chomsky since the 9/11 attacks -- full of distortions.For example, Hitchens writes:He is still arguing loudly for moral equivalence, maintaining that the Abbottabad,

I Feel Your Pain, Equivalently

There are a couple of interesting articles at Slate today. One is a column by Christopher Hitchens, enraged by Noam Chomsky's recent remarks on the assassination of Bin Laden, and -- typically for Hitchens when he talks about Chomsky since the 9/11 attacks -- full of distortions.For example, Hitchens writes:He is still arguing loudly for moral equivalence, maintaining that the Abbottabad,

I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You ...

... and now he's dead. But first the media and everybody else have to talk about it; it's like a sports event, where the post-game analysis can go on for years, and modern war is a sports event, just as sport is war by other means.One good thing, though: the killing of Bin Laden has knocked the Royal Wedding off the front pages.One bad thing: Obama will dine out on the killing of Bin Laden

I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You ...

... and now he's dead. But first the media and everybody else have to talk about it; it's like a sports event, where the post-game analysis can go on for years, and modern war is a sports event, just as sport is war by other means.One good thing, though: the killing of Bin Laden has knocked the Royal Wedding off the front pages.One bad thing: Obama will dine out on the killing of Bin Laden