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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

  • Hitch On Helms like White on Rice

    Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 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

  • We were right to create an insurgency?

    Hitchens, always the knee-jerk contrarian. Everyone except Bush dead-enders agrees that disbanding the Iraqi army was a boneheaded decision that single-handedly created the bloody insurgency. No sayeth Hitchens, we were right to disband the army! OK Hitch. If so, then just add that to the myriad reasons invading Iraq was a really stupid idea: ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by argexpat on September 18, 2007

  • There is one war in Iraq: an insurgency.

    There is one war in Iraq: an insurgency. The aim of any insurgency is to discredit the existing government, make it lose the support of the people, and weaken it to the point of collapse and therefore allow a new government by the insurgents to take its place. Has Hitchens mentioned anything that suggests the central government is getting ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by chuck on August 28, 2007