Hitchens is a reformed Lefty. Some part of him probably still needs to assuage a guilty conscience, and Kissinger is sufficiently distant in the past to avoid charges of contradiction when Hitchens now supports US policy.
I like how Hitchens finishes this article. I get the feeling he's held back a few things - just wanted to get Galloway on the record, and will spring a surprise on him by revealing some facts or documents at a later date. He'll probably do it in Britain, where the libel laws are the strictest, and dare Galloway to sue him. That would be the best and most fitting way to bring Galloway down.
Actually, he's NOT a "reformed leftie." He's still very much an avowed socialist, and still has great hatred for Kissenger, as well as Mother Teresa.
However, he despises Clinton for the lies he told (and wrote a book about it, "No One Left to Lie To"), and he realizes that the left is completely wrong about the threat that radical islamist pose to society. He voted for and supports President Bush in the war, simply as a matter of survival. Other than the war, he actually shares very few ideals with President Bush, and it's not something that he hides.
But the fact is that Hitchens is a man of principal, one who decided that because his views were wrong, they needed to be reviewed and then abandoned. It cost him dearly: Many of his former "friends" won't even talk to him anymore, and it's cost him financially, having lost the "golden boy" title of the left.
Mark