> Doug wrote:
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> > The concluding graf:
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> >> I have no hesitation in describing this mentality, carefully and
> >> without heat, as soft on crime and soft on fascism. No political
> >> coalition is possible with such people and, I'm thankful to say, no
> >> political coalition with them is now necessary. It no longer matters
> >> what they think.
> >
> > If it no longer matters, why has he written thousands of hostile words?
> >
Ted responded:>
> The thousands of words demonstrate its enormous importance (to Hitchens).
> The contempt is a way of denying this. Perhaps it has something in common
> with Lenin's contempt for "liberals" who refused to support the violence so
> obviously justified by such an obviously monstrous evil.
>
> Ted
>
You evidently skipped over the section on Lenin's denouncement of terrorism as a means to liberation? I mean, ya don't have to be a Leninist to see that I should hope. Just a matter of basic reading comprehension.
Steve
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