What if the stop the war protesters had got their way?
It's the 10th anniversary of the Stop the War protest today, which led me to think about a point Christopher Hitchens once made: how the world would look if the 'stop the war' protests - in their various forms - had their way? Saddam Hussein would be lord and master of the annexed Kuwait, his terrorised citizens living in a country once described as a concentration camp above ground and a mass grave below it. The Kurds may not have held out against him, the Shi'ite south still brutally repressed. Slobodan Milosevic would be a European dictator, having made Bosnia part of a Greater Serbia and ethnically cleansed Kosovo. Afghanistan still would be run by the Taleban, with al-Qaeda as their guests.
