Posted on 08/05/2005 12:06:43 AM PDT by F14 Pilot
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Surprising that the intro neglected to mention that Hitchens just recently became a US citizen..
Kinda like being the prettiest fat girl at the dance...
Reading Hitchens IS a 'beautiful thing'. . .agree with him or not. . .he raises all boats.
I dont like nor hate Bush. I voted for him twice. But I dont know who's worse; Bush haters or Bushbots??
Agreed. Hitchen spouts the Leftist view of Vietnam, yet look at Vietnam in the aftermath of that war and today. South Vietnam fought on for its independence two years after our forces left. Upon victory, the North Vietnamese government killed tens of thousands, forced millions into reeducation camps, and caused hundreds of thousands to flee via the high seas. Today, we have a repressive Communist regime, motivated by an "aggressive internationalist totalitarian ideology," as our legacy. Ho Chi Minh was just as much a tyrant and murderer as Saddam.
The Left, by and large, has turned into a culture of lies. The only two Leftists I know of that fit the old mold are Christopher Hitchens and Bono.
I see I should've written 'significant', too. Bad typing night.
I attended a public high school function last evening and noticed a boy wearing a "No war for oil" tee-shirt. On the back of it he had added the initials: "FUGB" with a magic marker.
No one around me even commented on it, and his mother was sitting right there. He is obviously afflicted with BDS, but it blows my mind that these people think it's pandemic, and EVERYONE has it. They have no common sense whatsoever.
Hitchens is one hell of a writer. I subscribe to Vanity Fair just to read his essays. I would love to have a drink (or several) with him.
LOL. . .and for sure ;^)
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Concurring bump. It's interesting that he should color Moore's shirt brown, when I thought it would more nearly be a red one, like the old socialist leagues of the 30's......as William Shirer tells us, back then all the political groupings had street gangs, gangs of toughs who competed and fought for "turf". In Collapse of the Third Republic he describes the rightist Croix de Feu, the monarchists, the socialists, the communists.......and the Italian fascists wore black shirts, and German ones wore brown shirts, except for the SS, who wore black. I always thought Moore would make a communist or a socialist.
Or maybe a slobist.
Fascinating that Hitchens sees him as a fascist.
Hitchens' eyes are still only half open -- he doesn't realize his fellow lefties lied about that too.
Don't forget the Left also snickered at the concept of the "Domino Theory," as if only an intellectual midget could believe such a thing. Well, what happened in Laos, Cambodia and South Vietnam (and almost in Thailand) certainly looked to me like a series of dominoes going down.
Then you are REALLY confused since Bush haters don't stop with Bush but spread their hatred over the entire Nation and all it has ever stood for. The mythical "Bush bot" is just another Patriot who loves America and its traditions.
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I would love to have a drink (or several) with him.
I did just that at the Freeper “Treason is the Reason” event during the Clinton administration. There was about six of us drinking together at the bar, debating the 2nd Amendment (among other things). After everybody moved away from the bar and into the dining room, I brought him over another drink (a Johnny Walker Black) and he grabbed my hand and said with totally convincing fake sincerity, “You are a very very great man.”
This was back in 1998, so it’s weird that this interviewer insists he began turning on the left after 9/11. During his brutal and cutting speech attacking the Clinton Administration as vicious enemies of freedom and the rule of law, he asked after listing each atrocity committed by them, “Can you eat enough - to vomit enough?”
I would say he was way off the reservation way back then.
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