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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
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
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
The American Soul: A Killer
After marvelling at No Country for Old Men, I read a review in Entertainment Weekly which shared my admiration. That movie and this quote from DH Lawrence seemed to encapsulate AN essence of America: The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. There is more to it, but at this point in time, it suffices.
Posted to Fighting Words by Usama2 on February 9, 2008
unpardonable skepticism
Hitchens seems to be exercising a strange prerogative here. His skepticism is, but of course, based in cool intellectual rigor. Yet, out of nowhere, he concludes his essay by announcing that any such skepticism being voiced by ''liberals and Democrats'' should be regarded as suspect to the point of being unpardonable. (Presumably the crime needing ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Tom Driscoll on November 20, 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
What would Patton do?
Following our victory in Europe in the Second World War, some American strategists, including General George S. Patton, suggested that the German Wehrmacht be rearmed as a hedge against the creeping Communist control over Eastern Europe, and a useful force in securing order in the conquered nation. The chattering classes in America were justly ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Silent Cal on September 17, 2007
Re: Hitchens Iraq delusions continue
On the AlQaeda in Iraq point, it should be mentioned that even ahead of the US-led invasion, some authoritative (although not so mainstream media) commentators and analysts were pointing out that one of the possible hopes in the event of an Iraq invasion was that it would move the likely arena for AlQaeda attacks to Iraq -- and thus well outside ...
Posted to Fighting Words by ex-reader on August 28, 2007