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  • Straight Talk About Israel

    Mr Rosner does really invoke TRUTH regarding Israeli US relations. Instead, he calls for downplaying them. Why? Might it be that Rosner does not want the truth about Israeli US relations to be revealed? After 1948, Israel was an modern independent nation with its own foreign policy agenda which included expansion and inclusion of the ancient ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama3 on October 10, 2008

  • Does Feith mention the PNAC and Wolfowitz?

    Hitchens is not an authority on the War on Iraq. He was in favor of it. So the fact that he claims Feith's work is a triumph for the pro-invasionists, pro-imperialists crowd is selfserving and prejudice. First) the motivations, objectives, and purposes for invading Iraq was determined years before 2001. Did Feith mention that? Or did he drop ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Usama2 on June 2, 2008

  • The American Soul: A Killer

    After marvelling at No Country for Old Men, I read a review in Entertainment Weekly which shared my admiration. That movie and this quote from DH Lawrence seemed to encapsulate AN essence of America: The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. There is more to it, but at this point in time, it suffices.
    Posted to Fighting Words by Usama2 on February 9, 2008

  • unpardonable skepticism

    Hitchens seems to be exercising a strange prerogative here. His skepticism is, but of course, based in cool intellectual rigor. Yet, out of nowhere, he concludes his essay by announcing that any such skepticism being voiced by ''liberals and Democrats'' should be regarded as suspect to the point of being unpardonable. (Presumably the crime needing ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Tom Driscoll on November 20, 2007

  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Western Civilization

    Whenever I read Christopher Hitchens, I learn a few lessons. In this case, Hitch upheld The Netherlands/Dutch as historically heroic for, among other things, offering refuge to Spinoza's family. Who knew? Unfortunately, when reading Hitchens, I always come across masterfully artful examples of his selective Polemics - (argumentative techniques.) ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on October 9, 2007