Christopher Hitchens has made much hay by incessantly pushing the fact that George Orwell is as relevant today as he ever was. It perplexes me then that he would start an article off by referring to our invasion of Iraq as an “intervention.” If that’s not a weasel word, I don’t know what is.
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