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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

  • Hitchens on "the surrender faction"

    What is the ''surrender faction?'' Hitchens' phrase for those of us who realize that the war in Iraq was a mistake to begin with, has remained a mistake, and is still a mistake, are not surrendering to anyone. ''Surrender faction'' is a bit of loaded phraseology, or NewSpeak, if you will, that vies with any of the propaganda phrases cooked up by ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Dismayzed on October 17, 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