[cpdiii]

Hitchens has always puzzled me. He is from the left (not the far left) but he can see the basic issues of right and wrong and survival in a violent world the same way conservatives do. When Hitchens puts pen paper, he destroys the logic of the liberals whom are against the war on terror.

[Carling]

My thoughts on Hitchens.

Whether I agree with his writings or not, there is one common aspect about all of them to me. I can't argue with his facts and how they support his logic.

I agree almost completely with this article (it catches my views on Iraq at a 99% level), but even when I read his works that fly in the face of my convictions I still have to respect where they come from. I've read some of his works that make me angry, yet the reasoning behind his words require thought and introspection to debate.

Mr. Hitchens is one of the great thinkers of our time. He, to me, is what a journalist should aspire to be.

[msnimje]

He is from the left...

He had a conversion on 9/11/2001

[Enchante]

Think of Hitchens as similar to "George Orwell" (Eric Blair), about whom Hitchens has written: Orwell was also a socialist, life-long left-winger, but was merciless in analyzing and tearing apart all the platitudes, false pieties, and deceptions that prevail in left-speak. Orwell's "Animal Farm" and "1984" were generally much better received among conservatives than among the left-liberals because they showed so eloquently the horrors of Soviet-type systems. There is much that we would all find to disagree with Hitchens about, especially in 'domestic' policies, but he does not suffer all the left's fools and charlatans gladly.