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The Nation Shares Its Hitchens FavoritesPosted on Dec 17, 2011
Christopher Hitchens wrote for The Nation magazine between 1978 and 2006, aiming “sarcasm and invective” at “fools on both left and right.“ On the occasion of his death, the magazine collects some of his most memorable salvos. —ARK
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By lefthook, December 18, 2011 at 2:04 pm Link to this comment
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Here’s one of my favorite Hitchens quote.
“LET ME BEGIN WITH A simple sentence that, even as I
write it, appears less than Swiftian in the modesty
of its proposal: “Prison conditions at Abu Ghraib
have improved markedly and dramatically since the
arrival of Coalition troops in Baghdad.”
I could undertake to defend that statement against
any member of Human Rights Watch or Amnesty
International, and I know in advance that none of
them could challenge it, let alone negate it. Before
March 2003, Abu Ghraib was an abattoir, a torture
chamber, and a concentration camp. Now, and not
without reason, it is an international byword for
Yankee imperialism and sadism. Yet the improvement is
still, unarguably, the difference between night and
day. How is it possible that the advocates of a post-
Saddam Iraq have been placed on the defensive in this
manner? And where should one begin?”
See? That was Hitchens being an apologist for Abu
Report thisGharaib. What a lovely person.
By lefthook, December 17, 2011 at 5:26 pm Link to this comment
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Hey everyone! Let’s all celebrate the life of a hateful
Report thishack and supporter of genocide and torture just because
he was a lefty when he was young! Hooray! Good riddance
to bad rubbish.