Like Peter Hitchens, and like Rod Liddle in The Spectator, Peter Wilby uses his New Statesman column to express himself "out on a limb" in his opposition to the war in Libya. Quite a limb, to have all three of them on it. Although one could dispute his analysis of the Spanish Civil War itself, Wilby is thinking in the same way as Hitchens on the present conflict:
"What I find impressive about the anti-fascist opposition of the 1930s is that so many young Britons, some from privileged backgrounds, volunteered to fight and die for their cause in the Spanish Civil War. How many of our missile-toting commentators would make the same sacrifice or would wish their sons to do so."
Quite.
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