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  • Re: Declare war on Pakistan

    GreenwichJ: . The Pashtun up in the North West see Punjabi government in Islamabad as almost as foreign as Nato forces in Afghanistan, and will happily kill Punjabis with impunity. Not to belabour a cliche, but violence really is the only language they understand. To beat the Taliban we need to pour troops over the border, clear and burn the ...
    Posted to War Stories by Usama2 on September 23, 2008

  • 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

  • Hitch, The Brits Started This Mess, Along With Reagan

    Christopher Hitchens engages in breathtaking and broad stroke, decades long perspective in cataloguing the burning of world war through the 20th Century, from the beginnings of World War One through World War Two through to the conclusion of the Cold War, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Yet he dates this Iraqi Twin War Conflict only to 2003? ...
    Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard1 on March 25, 2008

  • Iraq: Failure, mistake, or Success?

    Much has been stated about the fact that we were wrong to enter Iraq. That success is measured by how quickly we can get out of Iraq. Consider this: Iraq is in the heart of what most extremist Muslims consider holy ground. By attacking Iraq we attacked the heart of what the extremist Muslim holds dear. They have responded in force. Millions of ...
    Posted to War Stories by Proudofoursoldiers on March 2, 2008

  • Re: Slate How Bush & Rice Bungled

    Fred's, ''opinion'' demonstrates how little he understands the geopolitik of the region. General Musharraf is probably the only one who can guarantee a relatively stable Pakistan and surrounding region. Though his days maybe numbered now. Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif may be civilian hopes, but they are nothing more than good looking props for ...
    Posted to War Stories by jseeker on November 6, 2007

  • Why they hate us (Reza Aslan article)

    Anthropologist Akbar Ahmed, of American University in Washington, reports his findings of a year-long series of in-depth interviews of Muslims in the Middle East, south Asia, and southeast Asia: consistently Muslims of every degree (moderate, conservative, or modernizing) deeply believe that Islam is under attack by the West, especially the US. ...
    Posted to Books by Cybele on August 12, 2007

  • Rage boy

    Hi All, Let me first start by saying that although I do not agree entirely with all that he advocates, I highly respect Christopher Hitchins' thoughtful and incisive views and the objective, factual relevance of his arguments; not just on this issue but in the majority of his essays and books. In this mass media, technology age the ability to be ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Speaker's Corner on July 5, 2007