Quote by Christopher Hitchens
You can walk around this culture now, as a proud supporter of the so called anti-war movement and it's made up of a lot of people I used to know I'd like for them to be asked more often than they are, if your advice had been taken over the last 15 or so years; Slobodan Milosevic would still be the dictator of not just Serbia but also of a cleansed and ruined Bosnia and Kosovo. Saddam Hussein would still be the owner of Kuwait as well as Iraq, he would of nearly have doubled his holding of the worlds oil. The Taliban would still be in charge of Afghanistan. Don't you feel a little reproach to your so called high principle anti-war policy? Would that really have led to less violence, less cruelty?
Summary
This quote poses a rhetorical question to supporters of the anti-war movement, questioning whether their high principles and pacifist policies would have actually resulted in less violence and cruelty in situations such as those involving Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, and the Taliban. The quote suggests that if the advice of anti-war advocates had been taken, dictators would still be in power and regions like Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan would have experienced continued oppression and devastation. It aims to challenge the idea that an anti-war stance always leads to desired outcomes by raising doubts about the effectiveness of purely peaceful approaches in complex geopolitical conflicts.
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