Christopher Hitchens – long committed to the Kurds, yesterday’s Darfur – provides an exit strategy to the exit strategists that might just leave our honor intact. The one thing we cannot do, Hitchens argues, is to evade our ethical responsibilities to the Kurds, to our kindest visions of ourselves as a nation, and to posterity. We broke Iraq, Hitchens argues, and we should make a reasonable attempt to fix it, before bailing out.
Casey and her mother Wendy "I just started grief counseling. I'm always sad. I'm sad and in pain and I miss her." Wendy Hartling Hartling is the mother of Casey Chadwick, murdered in 2015 by Jean Jacques , an illegal Haitian immigrant. Jacques was convicted of the murder of Chadwick in a New London Superior Court jury trial and sentenced by Judge Barbara Bailey Jongbloed to a 60 year term in prison. Since Jacques is 44 years of age, the sentence was, in effect, a life sentence. Connecticut Commentary coverage of the Chadwick murder may be found here , and here and here . Jacques could not have been sentenced to death because Connecticut’s Democrat dominated General Assembly, under pressure from the state Supreme Court, had abolished Connecticut’s death penalty law in 2012 . The slaughter of Chadwick was particularly brutal. Her body had been found by a friend who, opening a door to a closet, discovered Chadwick stuffed in a dark corner drenched in blo...
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