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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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