Juan Cole w/ the smackdown on Hitchens

Why is Hitchens still published?  His latest in Slate, What I got wrong about Iraq was such a muddled mess, I couldn't figure it out.  Hellblazer had to break it down for me with the short answer:

Nothing. Absolutely Nothing.

Jaun Cole had a longer reply to Hitchens' increasingly desperate sounding, morally unhinged ravings about the mess in  Iraq:

If you are arguing for war, you don't have to ask all these fancy questions. There are really only two questions you have to answer. The first is, would you yourself be willing to die fighting for this cause you have espoused? The second is, would you be willing to see your 18-year-old son or daughter killed for this cause?

Pretty much cuts through all of the Hitchens BS.