Here is one apology that Frum owes to some Americans as a result of his ridiculous equivocation of dissent and patriotism:

“The Defense Department today announced 27-year-old 1st Lieutenant Andrew J. Bacevich of Walpole was killed yesterday when an improvised bomb exploded while he was on a patrol in the Salah Ad Din Province.”

His father — Andrew J. Bacevich — is a Boston University professor and was a vocal critic of the war.

But for heavens sake, Frum is what he is and the fact that he lives and breathes in some of journalism’s most influential venues (while more thoughtful men and women like Col. Bacevich and Ilana Mercer linger in the obscurity of the blogosphere) is an honest commentary on the “conservative” venues as well as the eager readers they influence.

Hitchens is not a worthy opponent of Ilana Mercer. I would prefer to witness her exchange with a man such as Tony Blair. As Myron indicates in his post, these characters like Hitchens, Frum, Kristol and Brooks deserve to talk only among themselves — “it is uniformly bland, trivial, witless, and wrong.” He forgot to add “crashing bore” which even on her worst day, Ilana is not!

By his “logic” we should have invaded Canada as well since it’s occupied by Third World nationals.

I opposed the war. I was vocal about it. I was told to “go back to Europe” by a third generation American. This person was a warmonger who refused to go off to war.

I also had to endure the hatred manifested by the Neocons toward the French simply because I have a French surname. Somehow the “attacks” on 9/11 did not involve Third Worlders, but instead involved descendants of the Vichy government.

Parasites like Frum and Krauthammer fostered this poisonous atmosphere.

In a former era they would have been expelled from the country.

I should like to see you go toe to toe with Mr. Hitchens; it would be a debate well worth witnessing.