Hitchens uncharacteristically flinches at the last minute from clearly stating the inescapable logic of the facts he has marshaled: Kerry is unfit.
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He undoubtedly suffers from ABB disease too. Hence, in the end, he can't pull the trigger.
Bingo! Thank you.
<< Hitchens uncharacteristically flinches at the last minute from clearly stating the inescapable logic of the facts he has marshaled: Kerry is unfit. >>
Not at all!
For the literalists, the translation of Hitchens' "We are looking at a man who would make, or would have made, a perfectly decent peacetime president," is "Kerry is unfit."
I got that impression too. He kept showing Kerry's shortcomings and then excusing them.