> The Hitchens-Pollitt Papers
I like that Hitchens began with:
> You are too true to language to allow
> yourself any absolute misrepresentation of
> what I say. So I am going to attribute your small
> but consistent mistakes to your politics.
and then followed it up with:
> I have read... Noam Chomsky's repeated assertion
> that Al Qaeda at its worst is no better than
> American foreign policy on a good day.
When on earth has Noam Chomsky said this?
I find all the venom both from Hitchens and from his detractors to be very distasteful, so I don't want to seem to add to it. But am I the only person who finds Hitchens' writing and thinking to be extremely muddled? I can barely understand what he's talking about half the time. Not that muddled writing isn't common across the political spectrum, but as a writer Hitchens can't play in the same league as Orwell, who was extraordinarily lucid and precise.
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