I linked to a book excerpt in the Guardian written by Nick Cohen earlier. The book takes a very hard look at the left and where it has lost its way. I thought it was brilliantly written and devastating. The paper prints a review and a number of responses to Cohen this week. It is very interesting to see the variations in the responses. The reviewer, Peter Oborne, admits the book scores a number of major hits, but then says Cohen is being overly broad and missing the honorable, decent people who oppose the war. I wonder, in reading the responses, if there is more than enough sting in Cohen's book that people are reacting to it because it hits close to home.
As with the original, I'll send you over there rather than trying to excerpt it. It needs to be read in context, I think.
After reading the “reviews”, it becomes obvious that his book is hitting too close to home for many on the left. Bush and Blair are now his “neo-con” friends…at least they didn’t call him a Nazi…yet.