They hate us! They really hate us!

The following is just one small part of an interesting editorial, apparently first printed in the Washington Post, by Annie Applebaum:

"The larger point, though, is that the 'it's-all-an-American-plot' arguments circulating in cyberspace again demonstrate something that the writer Christopher Hitchens, himself a former Trotskyite, has been talking about for a long time: at least a part of the Western left - or rather the Western far left - is now so anti-American, or so anti-Bush, that it actually prefers authoritarian or totalitarian leaders to any government that would be friendly to the US."