Face to Face

This Michael Totten tale of a long night of drinking with Christopher Hitchens and some occasionally hostile Iraqis, besides being interesting in a Portland-kid-hits-the-Beltway-circuit kinda way, strikes me as a good Rorschach Test for how one feels about American policy in Iraq, or at least on where one stands nowadays with Da Hitch. One sentence that jumped out:

Believe me, you don't know what a tense political fight feels like until the person yelling at you is from a country you recently bombed and currently occupy.