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Wait a year, Hitchens will change his mind
Hitchens thought people who believed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were guerilla wars were masochists and apologists. Now the counter-insurgency supporting masochists have done more for Iraq and Afghanistan than Hitchens ever did in years as a Bush Administration fluff boy. Now Hitchens takes credit for their successes. So, when the mood ...
Posted to Fighting Words by jalbrec on November 24, 2009
Has Hitchens Actually Ever Said Anything Right?
The man thought Iraq would be a cakewalk and the US would not face an insurgency, there would be minimal civilian casualties among Iraqi and Afghani populations, Petraeus' surge strategy was too little & too late, and that John Edwards was the only one in the Presidential race with any integrity. Hitchens also said that anyone who referred to ...
Posted to Fighting Words by jalbrec on October 20, 2009
Bombing Iran
Christopher Hitchens is stuck in 1990's. He thinks airstrikes with zero troops on the ground will solve the Iran crisis. He also thought Afghanistan was won, Iraq would be a cake walk, the surge strategy wouldn't work, the enemies in Iraq were not ''guerillas'' or ''insurgents,'' and John Edwards was a man of integrity. Great job, Chris!
Posted to Fighting Words by jalbrec on October 20, 2009
War In Afghanistan
Several things have gone wrong, and Christoper Hitchens and Rory Stewart are correct in their analysis, that it might be beyond the point of return. My knowledge base comes from serving in Helmand Province on a Civil Affairs Team in 2005-2006. I saw the seeds sown for our problems today. We had way too few troops committed to the mission. We only ...
Posted to Fighting Words by humboldtdda on July 20, 2009
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
Pakistan
In response to Hitchens' warning that Pakistan, in its lust to dominate Afghanistan, is backing the Taliban (and, by implication, Al Queda): I say let them have it. That should end any threats from that part of the world for quite some time. No one since Alexander the Great has been able to hang onto Afghanistan for any significant period. The ...
Posted to Fighting Words by doctuhd on September 15, 2008
Al Q & all that
After reading Mr Hitchens's comments & the comments on his comments, it has come to me that the issue or issues are far to complex to fathom. Cheers.
Posted to Fighting Words by larry278 on July 14, 2008
An interesting read
It's always fascinating reading a column on Iraq by this Hitchens guy. Not for the substance of anything he says, but simply to marvel at the fact that he can carry such a childishly simplistic narrative of the conflicts in the Middle East and central Asia around in his head, write about them, and still get taken seriously enough to retain a ...
Posted to Fighting Words by mattcliff on July 14, 2008