by Christopher Hitchens.This is a collection of previously published essays in favor of war in Iraq, mostly from Slate.com and running from November 2002 to April 2003, with a new introduction and afterword by the author. Hitchens' argument for forcible regime change from a left internationalist perspective has so far as I know gone entirely unanswered by the antiwar left, unless one counts all the ad hominem attacks, ranging from Alexander Cockburn's sputtering attempt to insinuate that Hitchens is gay, to the surgical neatness of Kathe Pollit's accusation that Hitchens is always "putting on his Orwell suit" for the neo-cons (a type of criticism he rather invites by remarks like this one, in the opening essay in the book: "At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.") If anyone knows of a serious and substantive response to his argument on this subject, which is well represented in this slender volume and makes for an invigorating read, I'd be much obliged for links or references.