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The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard2 on September 19, 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
Re: Hitchens is correct for the first time since 1997
LT-7: No. I just don't like to have them use things just to try and divert attention. There aren't all that many things that we are going to actually do anything about while we are stuck in Iraq. Our military is highly unlikely to end up invading Myanmar and creating a regime change. It is too busy stuck in the middle of a civil war in ...
Posted to Fighting Words by roctheboat on October 2, 2007