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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
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
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
Too Broad A Brush Stroke, Archbishop
The Archbishops use of Beth Din to justify sharia demonstrates his complete lack of understanding of Jewish Orthodoxy, and is, ultimately, an insult, to Judaism. Jews have always submitted to the law of the land where ever they migrated. The Orthodox take only religious matters to the Beth Din. If a mutilations, beatings or “honor crimes” were ...
Posted to Fighting Words by IMKessel on February 11, 2008
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
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
Loose chain of command is a factor
Aside from Hitchens's involved arguments, another point validates the idea that al Qaeda in Mesopotamia is genuine al Qaeda. al Qaeda proper is organized through loose connections between its higher-ups and affiliate cells. In many ways, these cells operate independent from the ''command,'' for lack of a better term. They maintain sparse ...
Posted to Fighting Words by shiv on August 18, 2007
al Qaeda's relevance to AQIZ
Mr. Hitchens, Isn't saying that al Qaeda in Iraq (assisted by Hassan Ghul, Abdul Hadi al Iraqi, al Masri and others closely linked to Zawahiri) not being associated with al Qaeda in Pak/Afghanistan almost as ludicrious as saying the U.S. military in Iraq isn't really part of the U.S. military in the U.S.? I certainly am not the first to make ...
Posted to Fighting Words by ikez78 on August 14, 2007
the hitch(ens) in your theory is this...
You consistently defend the action in Iraq, as being a fight against the al Qaida. That defeating the al Qaida is the ultimate goal. Okay, a legitimate goal, and argued well enough...except you incomprehensibly fall into the same trap as all the neo-cons who started the war! You place no value on the heads of bin Laden or al Zawahiri. How is ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Didereaux on August 14, 2007
Hitchens nailed it
In Hitchen's piece today he absolutely nailed it. Not only is he right about al Qaeda's goals in Iraq (why exactly do war destractors think al Qaeda is there?) and when they got there. More on when they got there here.
Posted to Fighting Words by Mark Eichenlaub on August 13, 2007

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