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  • Egregious Factual Error in Feith's book

    Feith's book contains a serious error that undermines its credibility. On page 187, Feith writes that the ''CIA's assessment of Iraq's support for terrorism was reinforced by postwars discoveries'', and then goes on to claim that ''among the terrorists whom Saddam harbored in Iraq were .. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi''. This is categorically false. The ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by jsill on June 3, 2008

  • Hitchens on McClelland

    I haven't read the Feith book but I might. What is more certain is that I will never crack the spine on Scott McCelland's book. What a reprehensible tool he is to act as spokesman for an administration and then to back-pedal so he can feel like a nice guy again. Not to mention the pretty penny he'll be making for his moral cowardice. I say ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Samantha Zahringer 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

  • 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

  • Hey everybody! I can quote Thomas Paine!

    I wish Slate would stop inflicting its readers with columns by Christopher Hitchens every week. As a commentator, he isn't nearly as clever as he thinks he is and it shows just as much in his opinions as in the way he presents them.With every column he tries to create the illusion of erudition but the usual result is an apparent smugness. In his ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by EdTSR on November 20, 2007

  • Re: unpardonable skepticism

    melonhead It seems to me that Hitchens is presuming to indict what he sees as the attitude of those terrible liberals who supposedly welcome bad news.There's a strange perversion of the shoot the messanger logic going on there. Because a tragedy happens to vindicate an argument doesn't mean those who advance the argument are ''pleased'' with ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Tom Driscoll on November 20, 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

  • 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

  • Hitchens is remarkable

    HItchens is one of the few certifiable genuises remaining in journalism today. Ever hear the man speak? And I love that he used to a liberal. I often wonder if that might just be one of the reasons the Left hates him so much. Ever see him debate a liberal? Someone like Keillor or George Garrison? They almost appear too self inflated to know ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by kalraza on November 12, 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
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