This will kick up a firestorm:
And that's why neoconservatism, while analytically perceptive in the past, does not ultimately appeal to me. You have to love war to be a real neocon.-AS
If "love war" means accept war at any cost [good link], then I agree, thousands of billions of dollars later ...
As for Hitch, I don't know if he's wrestled his anti-pacifist beliefs to encompass the thought that, in a nuclear world, war/violence itself becomes 'the enemy'.