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  • Re: Real Debate

    Your comment conflates 'religion' w/ 'culture.' Not all cultures are religious, or ''clothed in allegories and myths'' that people treat as non-fiction. Examples of non-religious cultures: secular Judaism; the culture of any secular institution (e.g. your local public university, Google). Non-religious cultures may include myths, but the myths ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by PrivateSchoolGal on October 30, 2009

  • Ok, Hitch

    What did you learn? You been around for a few years debating, and i seen a lot of them, and this is it?
    Posted to Fighting Words by Alabasterocean on October 26, 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

  • Re: Roman Polanski, and Justice

    I agree with everything in this post except the comment that Hitchens is ''combating hysteria with his usual wit and good sense'', since I felt that he simply deployed hysteria in a more sophisticated fashion that is usually displayed in this most recent round of the Polanski debate. The lame defense of Vanity Fair was unseemly and transparent. ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Naylor on October 7, 2009

  • Hitch vs. Polanski vs. the Jihadis

    Slandering roman polanski angers the Hollywood old guard. Ooh. Anne Applebaum is never going to invite you over to her house for another tea-party. You may not make Whoopie Goldberg's Christmas card list. Slandering Mohammed as a child rapist and pedophile angers 1 billion Muslims. If your accounts are true about the Prophet's favorite wife ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Raath on October 5, 2009

  • Egypt's Foure-legged pigs

    Egyptian officials like us to believe that the country is now free of pigs (four-legged variety). I have my doubts, given the level of competence of the Egyptian military. I suspect many of the littler swine of the Nile have gone into hiding, perhaps bundled and sent on rafts down the Nile, while the armies of Pharaoh search for them. I ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by mghuloum on September 29, 2009

  • Hitchens is confused

    HItchens and his throngs of blind supporters always seem confused about the concept of freedom of speech. Freedom of speech necessitates tolerance of the expression of the most obscene and offensive views. TOLERANCE DOES NOT NECESSITATE ACCEPTANCE as Hitchens and co seem to believe. We tolerate Nazi hate speech just like we tolerate ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by poyan on August 19, 2009

  • Conqueror Hitchens Ignores Reality of the Past and Future

    Hitchens' perverted arrogance ignores the fact that America occupies at least 2 nations with its military forces that are Muslim majority. And there are perhaps 100s of American military installations in Muslim nations around the world that the US gov has manipulated to justify their presence in foreign lands. So there are serious ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Usama3 on August 18, 2009

  • The best way to beat extremism...

    One of the problems I have with tackling Islamic extremism is that most of it is rooted in other countries whereas there is a much more insidious dangerous cult on our own doorsteps that we should sort out first before we start lecturing the Muslim world about how they should be living. Whilst I agree with Hitchens on most of his points I do wish ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by chunkylimey on August 17, 2009
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