- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 The Case for Regime Change -
2 Liberal Legacies, Europe’s Totalitarian Era, and the Iraq War -
3 “Regime Change” -
4 In the Murk of It -
5 National Interest and International Law -
6 Just War against an “Outlaw” Region -
7 Moral Arguments -
8 A Friendly Drink in a Time of War -
9 Wielding the Moral Club -
10 Peace, Human Rights, and the Moral Choices of the Churches -
11 Ethical Correctness and the Decline of the Left -
12 Pages from a Daily Journal of Argument -
13 Liberal Realism or Liberal Idealism -
14 Iraq and the European Left -
15 Guilt’s End -
16 The Iraq War and the French Left -
17 Tempting Illusions, Scary Realities, or the Emperor’s New Clothes II -
18 Antitotalitarianism as a Vocation -
19 Sometimes, a War Saves People -
20 Gulf War Syndrome Mark II -
21 “They Don’t Know One Little Thing” -
22 “Why Did It Take You So Long to Get Here?” -
23 Full Statement to the House of Commons, 18 March 2003 -
24 The Threat of Global Terrorism - Contributors
- Index
The Case for Regime Change
The Case for Regime Change
- Chapter:
- (p.28) (p.29) 1 The Case for Regime Change
- Source:
- A Matter of Principle
- Author(s):
Christopher Hitchens
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter deals with the removal of the Saddam Hussein regime. In 1998, the United States Senate unanimously adopted the Iraq Liberation Act, at a period when Iraq had been labelled as a “rogue” state. The need for a regime change in Iraq had been existing even prior to the September 11, 2001 atrocity. The removal of the Taliban and the temporary routing of Al Qaeda was a necessary reprisal for the aggression of September 11. It is believed that if Saddam's Iraq had been hiding weapons and harboring terrorists in the literal way that some voters were led to believe was the case, then there would have been a right to intervene that could be exerted regardless of Iraqi public opinion. As it happened, there was excellent reason to think that the inhabitants of a rogue state would see the removal of a foul tyrant as a deliverance.
Keywords: regime change, Taliban, weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein, United States Senate, Al Qaeda
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 The Case for Regime Change -
2 Liberal Legacies, Europe’s Totalitarian Era, and the Iraq War -
3 “Regime Change” -
4 In the Murk of It -
5 National Interest and International Law -
6 Just War against an “Outlaw” Region -
7 Moral Arguments -
8 A Friendly Drink in a Time of War -
9 Wielding the Moral Club -
10 Peace, Human Rights, and the Moral Choices of the Churches -
11 Ethical Correctness and the Decline of the Left -
12 Pages from a Daily Journal of Argument -
13 Liberal Realism or Liberal Idealism -
14 Iraq and the European Left -
15 Guilt’s End -
16 The Iraq War and the French Left -
17 Tempting Illusions, Scary Realities, or the Emperor’s New Clothes II -
18 Antitotalitarianism as a Vocation -
19 Sometimes, a War Saves People -
20 Gulf War Syndrome Mark II -
21 “They Don’t Know One Little Thing” -
22 “Why Did It Take You So Long to Get Here?” -
23 Full Statement to the House of Commons, 18 March 2003 -
24 The Threat of Global Terrorism - Contributors
- Index
