The Galloway/Hitchens debate showed just what it should have showed: a blustering fraud without a conscience confronting a man equipped with intelligence, facts and a moral (if aggressively secular) center. It was all there for those with ears to hear, and there’s no doubt that any young hipsters who watched with a sliver of an open mind would have had cracks start to form in the world view with which they’ve been brainwashed. Such is the way that some mature, and others continue merrily down their way to deeper ignorance and even more impenetrable blinders.

One of the arguments Hitchens made to which Galloway had no answer (and, truth be told, he had no answer to any of Hitchens’ arguments, other than slapstick-style attacks on the man making them) was that if the anti-war lobby had had their way at every turn over the last 15 years, we would live in a world where (a) Saddam Hussein would be torturing and killing the people of both Iraq and Kuwait, and using those enormous resources to build an arsenal with which to wreak far greater havoc; (b) Colonel Khaddafy would be continuing to develop the weapons of mass destruction which he handed over to Bush and Blair last year; (c) Milosevic would have successfully “cleansed” the Muslim population of Kosovo, and (d) the Taliban would be continuing their brutal oppression of the people of Afghanistan and still giving shelter to Osama Bin Laden and his training camps.

And today, the ordinary, humble people of Afghanistan have given the world yet another example of the inherent inclination of common folk everywhere to rule their own destinies and seek a better future for their children. And, make no mistake: it is on this that we depend.

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