No. Please, no. The last thing they need is yet another incentive to wage ecclesiastical civil war.

I know! Let's send a few thousand copies of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything! Mr. Hitchens can even offer to teach a class in modern atheist philosophy at this esteemed university. I'm sure that would be well-received by the quasi-theocratic Shi'ite government we put into power, as well as by the children of the new aristocrats, since at $10,000.00 per year, those are the only people who will be attending.

I wonder how long Hitch would live. Not terribly long, I'd imagine.

Hello quillsinister. I've thought of sending several copies of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. I'd wager the working stiff in Iraq could relate to Tom Joad.

The battle lines are drawn up in two sweeping arcs, quill. The boys in blue are on Cemetery Ridge in a fish hook, facing their kin in grey who occupy Seminary Ridge to the west.

I'm with Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Chamberlain and the 10th Maine on Little Round Top which anchors the Union left. The 14th Alabama have slammed into the lines again, and are turning our left flank.

We are out of ball and powder, no water, and casualties are mounting. A desperate situation: the word is being shouted down the line, "bayonet." If this school teacher turned warrior can carry the day, surely they will call him the Lion of the Round Top.

That sounds serious. Just remember that you are the flank. Your line must hold!

Confusion to your enemies! :-)

What's amazing to me is that over the years, Hitch has written numerous articles criticle of muslims and describing them as people who don't respect freedom of expression.

Now suddenly, he wants to help them get books?

Riiiight.