Very Moving
Thursday, October 4, 2007I just read this piece by Christopher Hitchens from Vanity Fair and thought I should post it:
It hit a little close to home, I think. I come from a liberal Irish family too and have a brother in the military, and as a result I really got the part about the existence of pure motives in a world of cynical sloganeering.
It’s a very serious responsibility to have to put guys like that in the midst of mayhem, and it’s a leader’s role to make sure that attitude is honored and used wisely. But lost amidst the yelling and screaming on both sides of the aisle, there are still people who take a position because of reason and good intentions. The hope that people like Mark Daily will get to positions of power is the only thing that keeps me believing in politics.
This blows my mind. This must be the worst nightmare of any journalist – to know something you wrote encouraged someone to take action that leads to death. Poor guy.