Jesus, this is so DUMB. I don't think Hitch is old enougfh to bea charter support of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) (me neither), but I cut my own teeth as an activist in CND many years later during the cruise missle campaign, and it seems to me that the main objection we were fending off is that we were patsy of cruel and repressive dictators anda ggressors. Or has Hitch gone soft on the USSR now too?
jks
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>Hitchens wrote:
> >
> > Guardian (London) - November 14, 2001
> >
> > Ha ha ha to the pacifists
> > Christopher Hitchens
>
> > Poor fools. They should never have tried to beat me at this game.
> > What about, "Afghanistan, where the world's most open society
> > confronts the world's most closed one"? "Where American women pilots
> > kill the men who enslave women." "Where the world's most
> > indiscriminate bombers are bombed by the world's most accurate ones."> .
>. . .
> > There's no pleasing some people, but as a charter supporter of CND I
> > can remember a time when the peace movement was not an auxiliary to
> > dictators and aggressors in trouble. Looking at some of the
> > mind-rotting tripe that comes my way from much of today's left, I get
> > the impression that they go to bed saying: what have I done for
> > Saddam Hussein or good old Slobodan or the Taliban today?
>
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