Choosing sides …

“. . . fighting the fight of the Hitch.” (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… how had the comrade who in the 1990s had taken such ruthless aim from the left at the triangulations of the Clinton-Blair era – ‘the sump of images and soft money and poll-meisters and consultants’ – become one of the leading apologists for the Iraq war, friend of Wolfowitz and populariser of the term ‘Islamic fascism’ ….