Christopher Hitchens on Charlie Rose 06-Nov-01 (Part 1)

(Part 1 of 3) A conversation with journalist and essayist Christopher Hitchens about his book "Letters to a Young Contrarian", which chronicles his contrary positions towards well-known figures and ideas.

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY6uQbAzGOg
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgH16jjUOeY

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- BerkeleyGuy

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[Freshhhhh1982]

I agree with you 100%. And Contrary to popular opinion, I dont think Hitchens has become a neo con. I think he is still left wing but the rest of the left have lost their fucking minds.

[DammitSteve]

"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."

-Orwell, 1946

Hitchens is very far from Orwell's polar opposite.

[ScottBrown666]

@ScottBrown666 Well, one bullet for Saddam, I think the only plausible solution to the Taliban rule in Afghanistan would be the extreme action of militarily training and arming all Afghan women and seeing what happened then.

[ScottBrown666]

@Freshhhhh1982 At the same time, the rest of the left isn't afraid to state that the way we went about things in Iraq and Afghanistan were terribly misguided. We didn't need an invasion and an occupation, we need one well-placed bullet. That said, I love Hitchens and am growing tired of the defense of tyrants by leftists, currently the far superior tactics used to help depose Gadhaffi.

[lancemannly]

@Freshhhhh1982

for fucks sake he says "I'm no longer a socialist but I'm still a marxist" of course he's left wing!!

[bigbrothersucksarse]

The most sensitively intelligent mind of our time.

[Deadleader555]

Exacly... the left has become a friend of the extreem islamic rightwing that stands for absolutly nothing that the left it self stands for... and Hitchens him self blame the republicans and the american conservatives for supporting theese theocratic regimes in the pass.. but he also knows that only blaming people is not a suficial argument.. in other words, now that the mess is done, we should atleast correct our selfs, and battle theese fascists..

[EminemBase]

Hitchens has stated he shares no one set of ideologies. He's neither left nor right, he's just independent now.

[Brantinger]

If u think that then welcome to neoconservatism cause that thought is the founding principle of neoconservatism...

[OneBigRetard]

Unfortunately my argument is slightly one sided as the antagonist's comments are all gone.