(2/2) Part Two. Christopher Hitchens on ABC1 Lateline.

In this second part Christopher Hitchens talks about his public life, battles and some of the events in recent history which led to his break with the left. For more on Christopher Hitchens, visit http://www.dailyhitchens.com/

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• 2010
• Christopher Hitchens
• Tony Jones
• politics
• Iraq
• Bosnia
• Bill Clinton

[HarrysSecret]

Farewell Hitch.

[knightschwartz]

does hitch want American whites to become minorities? I get the sence he does which is disgusting to me.

[G58]

@onehairybuddha And you may ask, why is that important? Well, the only person who would do such a thing is either a willfully stupid & reckless, as Bush is universally perceived to be, or a very cynical & wholly profit orientated as Cheney and Rumsfeld undoubtedly are. There is a very good way to measure the wisdom of whether any strategy or tactic is wise or not, and it is to ask if the ancient Chinese war strategists would do it. Nothing about Iraq makes sense.

[G58]

@onehairybuddha The use of expediency to deliberately subvert the international legal process is no justification for starting a war, especially considering the gravity of the situation & the huge CALCULABLE risks involved. I was in favour of the war IF the intell was genuine, but it wasn't. The US believed they could bring terrorists out into the open & beat them on the battlefield by attacking Iraq, but failed to realise that instead they would be creating many more enemies, not defeating one.

[onehairybuddha]

@G58

Those of us who were pro-war before the fake intelligence reports and unmoved by them when they came out, have no reason to reverse our position. The war was inexcusably badly executed, but to leave Saddam Hussein in power would also have been inexcusable and his time in power was ended far after it should have been.

[louisa1421]

Hitchins is a clear thinker. Too bad that our politicians are bent on following party lines with the same zeal that they follow religious dogmas.

[G58]

Further, it seems to me that if his pro war stance was excusable, when we were all presented with the fake intelligence reports - before the war, it certainly is not now - not for any intelligent person with a genuine conscience. He's as wrong about this as he is right about almost everything else. Indeed he appears to have fallen into a trap of swapping theism and communism in favour of a very selective right wing US new world order. Iraq was the greatest of all crimes: an unjust act of war.

[G58]

@theorlandu My unreserved apologies. I attacked you in gross error. I'm going to blame my glasses, but that's a very weak and disingenuous excuse. Comment removed.