Hitchens may have gone off the rails on Iraq and some other issues, but he gets it right in this Slate piece in my opinion. He feels that his Iraq stance is consistent with his longstanding principles, and the obsession that many leftists have with his “betrayal” says as much about the obsessors as the obsessee. For comparison, we might wonder what David Horowitz would say about Pinochet, and perhaps has said–personally though I don’t care enough to look.

http://www.slate.com/id/2155242/