[Man of the Right]

Hitchens is a conservative, but hasn't figured it out yet.

He's traveled the same road followed by George Orwell, Norman Podoretz, David Horowitz and other thinking leftists who mature while retaining their critical faculty.

The Islamists aim to exterminate us. All of us. If our lives or culture have any value, we should resist this movement proactively to minimize our loss.

You don't have to be a Mensa member to figure this out. But it's more difficult if you grew up a lefist. It requires a sharp mind and a willingness to be shunned. Hitchens has it. Most middle age leftists don't.

[livius]

The United States is now at war with the forces of reaction..

Hitchens summed it up in this one. Nonetheless, about two weeks ago, he had an opinion article in the WSJ that I found virtually unreadable and almost the opposite of this.

I wish he'd make up his mind.

[friendly]

A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged. Hitchens has been politically indocrinated in his youth, but is intellectually astute enough to be slowly figuring it out.