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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
News Flash: Christopher Hitchens Seeks Catholic Confessional
I was surprised to read Christopher Hitchens today, riding high on his moral horse as to the political, cultural and economic predations of Maximum Leader Robert Mugabe in his current Country of Residence, Zimbabwe. What people like Hitchens never seem to understand, is that morality is never just for other people, or leaders, or religious types. ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on June 10, 2008
Does Feith mention the PNAC and Wolfowitz?
Hitchens is not an authority on the War on Iraq. He was in favor of it. So the fact that he claims Feith's work is a triumph for the pro-invasionists, pro-imperialists crowd is selfserving and prejudice. First) the motivations, objectives, and purposes for invading Iraq was determined years before 2001. Did Feith mention that? Or did he drop ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Usama2 on June 2, 2008
moral idiot much?
From the article:It is a moral idiot who thinks that anti-Semitism is a threat only to Jews. The history of civilization demonstrates something rather different: Judaeophobia is an unfailing prognosis of barbarism and collapse, and the states and movements that promulgate it are doomed to suicide as well as homicide, as was demonstrated by ...
Posted to Fighting Words by TheSteelGeneral on May 14, 2008
The loss of Zimbabwe and South Africa to the Reds . . .
. . . compares favorably with the loss of Afghanistan, Tibet, Hong Kong, and China to the Socialist/Communist ideologues elsewhere. Of course, the Anglo-American world Realpolitik has suffered it's share of losses to Right Wing Ideologue regimes, as well. Look no further than France, Italy, and Iran among others. We could even mention America in ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on April 21, 2008
Krebs Can't Shake Imperial Thinking
It seems like so many pundits, thinkers, politicans, and leaders in America just can't shake the mindset that America must advance its interests abroad through conniving double talk, backstabbing hypocricy, and cutthroat manicheanism. Its like the abuser that beats his kids, realizes its wrong, but resorts back to beating them because it just ...
Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on January 4, 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
Re: moderation is extremism
princesswonderful: we have to acknowledge that there is absolutely no earthly authority who can ideologically police actions which bear the marks of religious interpretation or carry a claim (however irrational by empirical standards) of divine mandate. moderate religious practice (of all faiths) only further entrenches the dangerously ...
Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on December 19, 2007
Little Lies with Big Consequences
''To have savaged and discredited al-Qaida in an open fight and to have taken down a fascist Baath Party, which betrayed its pseudosecularism by forging an alliance with al-Qaida,'' Hitchens is worried that we are not celebratory enough about the positive trends in Iraq. Liberals and Democrats, he argues, would prefer defeat. The outcome in Iraq ...
Posted to Fighting Words by parasiteofentropy on November 20, 2007