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Wow -- What a Rant by "Rage Boy" Chris Hitch Today
I am perfectly content, really quite happy, about Obama's decision to have this mega-Church author, pastor, and cultural figure, Rick Warren, give the prayer at the January 20th Inauguration of our new United States President. I understand the apoplexy of ''Rage Boy'' Christopher Hitchens at the very thought of a prayer being said, let alone a ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard3 on December 29, 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
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
Re: Hitchens' Values
the_slasher14: Whereas the Weekly Standard gets kudos for reprinting the Danish cartoons, which Hitchens surely knows was done not to challenge the bigotry of Muslim fanatics but, rather, to try to inflame the American public into continuing to fight a war which the overwhelming majority of the WS writers, and its publisher, support only ...
Posted to Fighting Words by gzuckier on February 20, 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: 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
Racial superiority in Islam
Hitchens in his article on Islamofascism writes: ''Technically, no form of Islam preaches racial superiority or proposes a master race.'' This is not entirely true. The notion of racial superirity was eliminated by Prophet Muhammad in his statements and also in the Quran, but within hours of his death, the doctrine of Meccan Arab superiority ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Tarek Fatah on October 24, 2007
Do Definitions Matter?
I am no expert on either Islam or Facism, per se, but I can say that this article reeks of muddled thinking. My first issue is with the use of the term. It is not used in a definitional way. It is used as a catchphrase for a whole mindset that seeks to conflate two entirely different and in some ways opposing things. Additionally, the term is ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Offkilter007 on October 23, 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

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