Pro-War Leftie

Christopher Hitchens asks a pertinent question: (found via Ann Althouse, subbing for the Instapundit)

How can so many people watch this as if they were spectators, handicapping and rating the successes and failures from some imagined position of neutrality? Do they suppose that a defeat in Iraq would be a defeat only for the Bush administration?

Spot on. From my conversations with lefties around here, it seems they are actually rooting for our loss in Iraq, so they can stick it in Bush's eye. Don't they understand that if we lose, then hope for our way of life is going to fade fast? Hitchens earlier wrote:

It never seemed to me that there was any alternative to confronting the reality of Iraq, which was already on the verge of implosion and might, if left to rot and crash, have become to the region what the Congo is to Central Africa: a vortex of chaos and misery that would draw in opportunistic interventions from Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

I don't know about you, but the thought of Iran taking over Iraq, or getting into fisticuffs with the Saudis or the Turks, is a little unsettling. Especially with Iran restarting their nuclear programs.