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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

  • 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

  • GITMO Gets "U.S.", Not Them

    As an American Citizen who tries to stay informed, I can say these images of the military prison at Guatanemo Bay, Cuba are some of the first I have ever seen. I saw a video on TV once of a GITMO inmate strapped down to a wheelbarrow-like transport and being wheeled to or from a presumable ...
    Posted to Recycled by MichaelBernard1 on January 13, 2008

  • Re: Hitchens

    I blame America. And Bush. And Hitchens. Not for detonating the bomb, but for supporting the decades long American policy of interfering in Pakistan to advance American interests. Decades of America dominating in Pakistan through Pakistani military assets has forced opposing politica interests to practice the most drastic, most violent ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Usama2 on December 29, 2007

  • The Abbatoir of Iraq

    Hitchens almost made it through an entire article without taking a cheap, slanderous shot at somebody or something. Tragically, at the very end, he broke down and suggested that ''liberals'' (borrowing the craven language of American Fascism) might not appreciate good news out of Iraq, but rather secretly hope for the situation to get worse. It ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by stevenhenry on November 30, 2007

  • What About Turkey?

    Hitchens has had sordid, rather veiled allusions to the depravity of the Turkish charactor on his books on Cyprus, the Kurds, and the Bush administration's always fumbled dealings with them. Now that they've clearly breached the boarder of Nothern Iraq en masse Hitchens should be enraged. Why's he wasting his energy playing little semantic games ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Norman Conway on October 22, 2007

  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Western Civilization

    Whenever I read Christopher Hitchens, I learn a few lessons. In this case, Hitch upheld The Netherlands/Dutch as historically heroic for, among other things, offering refuge to Spinoza's family. Who knew? Unfortunately, when reading Hitchens, I always come across masterfully artful examples of his selective Polemics - (argumentative techniques.) ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on October 9, 2007

  • As viewed from Britain

    I have followed US Politics closely since I was in my teens. There are reasons for this, starting with My Lai, and much reinforced by my perception, at age seventeen, that Richard Nixon was crazy enough to start a nuclear war to create an insane distraction from Watergate. That scared me badly and it was years before I got over it Anyway, ...
    Posted to Foreigners by anarch on October 2, 2007