>"Members of the left, along with the far larger number
>of squishy "progressives," have grossly failed to live
>up to their responsibility to think; rather, they are
>merely reacting, substituting tired slogans for
>thought. The majority of those "progressives" who take
>comfort from Stone and Chomsky are not committed,
>militant anti-imperialists or anti-capitalists.
>Nothing so muscular. They are of the sort who,
>discovering a viper in the bed of their child, would
>place the first call to People for the Ethical
>Treatment of Animals."
Hmm, isn't Hitch a bit too concerned with the "muscular" here? Yet another intellectual trying to appear tough and manly?
Doug