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You'd better be sitting down, because this may be, in fact, the mother of all reframings.
Last Sunday I never got to the news section of the New York Times, and so I missed the lead article, about a massive, organized looting of a truly dangerous weapons facility in Iraq, what one might call the mother of all al-Qaqaas.
Christopher Hitchens so thoroughly reframes it one might say he inverts it.
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Yes, Hitch gets it in one yet again. This makes both sides of the invasion controversy look bad.
Posted by: Oscar | March 15, 2005 at 05:32 PM
In light of this, this old interview is kind of interesting.
Posted by: tbrosz | March 15, 2005 at 09:06 PM