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Don't be So Sure, Hitchens
As a Sri Lanknan, I can relate to something robusto has said. Hitchens is mistaking politeness for friendliness.When foreigners talk to Sri Lankans, they are delighted to know that the locals absolutely love them! What they don't realize of course, is that we would only tell them how much we love them for to do otherwise would be rude by our ...
Posted to Fighting Words by tvs on August 5, 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