Hitchens is a mean drunk.
Sure there are, every fighter jet in the world carries non ballistic missiles. There are also theater ballistic missles as well as ICBMs.
Just one more example of how ignorant these people are.
Anti-Administration polemics where Hitchens main bread and butter during the Reagan years, and, as always, focused on the usual 80's hobbyhorses: Latin America, South Africa, Communism and, as it goes without saying, those rascally capitalists. How silly even the issues look now and how right Reagan was about them. I imagine that in 20 years the Lefts caterwauling about Palestine, Kyoto, GM crops and the UN will look just as silly. Chris does not realize it but he just write his own epitaph.
Never forget the Comrade Chris and his ilk think the USSR an anomaly in the world historical development of Socialist Man. With it gone there is just one less bit if contrived evasion and rhetoric they need not arm themselves with. Though it is wrong to say that ?many on the left" were glad to see it go - they where (and are) heartbroken.
Like all mean drunks, he is also a sentimentalist and a self righteous blowhard.
...he's even a meaner homo!
You may be on to something here. Hitchens may, at this moment, be asking himself the question, "Could I really have been drunk enough to say something this stupid?"
The Gipper didn't need Carter's briefing book. He had Carter's record of the previous 4 years.