Hitchens responds to critics

[Nathan Newman]

Ah yes, "garbage" and "cracked"- stirring analysis.  Don't agree with every
word of Hitch but the basic point is sound -- to the extent that any action
issued from the Taliban-based world of oppression, the discussions of  US
crimes "causing"  the mass murder of Sept 11 is ridiculous.  Hitch clearly
notes the tragedy of blowback from the US's own crimes in supportin the
Taliban in the first place, but to give any moral status or even link of
mass murder as connected to legitimate struggles against injustice is an
obscenity.

The Germans suffered serious injustice following World War I; so should be
just "explain" the Holocaust as a misguided overreaction to justified
grievances?

Nathan
nathan at newman.org
http://www.nathannewman.org
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> -Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:24:36 -0700 (PDT)
> From: dave dorkin <ddorkin1 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Hitchens responds to critics
>
> A truly breathtaking piece of garbage. The swipes at
> Chomsky remind one more of Horowitz than anything else.
>

Shite! -- what a rant
He finally cracked. I cant say its completely surpising though. I suppose
the signs were there for a
couple of years now, but its still kind of a shock to see him breakdown like
this in public.
The comparison with his buddy Horowitz is apt.

-Pradeep