A lot of people because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed to be the repository of other people's hope.
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I hope I'm wrong but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy – worse than Vietnam not in the number who died but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
