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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

  • Hitchens lays another egg

    For years I have read in amusement Hitchens' hysterics. As a historian specializing in the History of India and South Asia in general, I find his claims rather ridiculous. For example, ''Muslim Propagandist'' Rahmat Ali of my alma mater Cambridge might have invented the name PAKISTAN but he had nothing to do with the making of Pakistan. ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Gracchus-T on September 16, 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

  • The Eddie Murphy Quandary

    I believe it was Eddie Murphy who framed the matter: why is it when white folk enter a haunted house, they choose to stay? Why is it that Hitchens' paints Pakistan in such a unfavorable, duplicitous, illegitimate, genocidal, untrustworthy light? For decades as a communist sympathizer, Hitchens wrote about how Western nations used proxy ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Usama2 on September 15, 2008