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"Unlike some, I'll pay him what I owe him," wrote George Orwell in a 1943 poem giving a leftist's tribute to Winston Churchill.(The Week ...)(The Politics of Churlishness)(Brief Article)

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"Unlike some, I'll pay him what I owe him," wrote George Orwell in a 1943 poem giving a leftist's tribute to Winston Churchill. In an essay, "The Politics of Churlishness," Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of The New Republic, offers a similar thank-you to George W. Bush. Peretz itemizes the churls: "critics of the war who want nothing of history except to be proved right"; Monday-morning quarterbacks--"what blogger couldn't have accomplished [the occupation of Iraq] more deftly?" (That means you, Andrew Sullivan.) Then he ticks off the hopeful upheaval in the Middle East: Iraq free of Saddam and turning the corner; the Cedar Revolution; ...

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