> Peter K. quoted Hitch:
>
>> There is a tendency, some of it paranoid and disreputable, for the
>> citizens of other countries and cultures to regard President Bush's
>> "war on terror" as opportunist and even as contrived. I myself don't
>> take any stock in such propaganda. But can Congress and the media be
>> expected to swallow the appointment of a proven coverup artist, a
>> discredited historian, a busted liar, and a man who is wanted in many
>> jurisdictions for the vilest of offenses? The shame of this, and the
>> open contempt for the families of our victims, ought to be the cause
>> of a storm of protest.
>
> There are none so blind... The appointment says it all, doesn't it?
> Yet none of the Kissinger hatred rubs off on the guy who tapped him,
> because that would be "paranoid and disreputable." Surely the author
> of these words is smarter than that.
>
> Doug
It's funny how Hitchens lives in two distinct worlds that don't meet. He goes on the Fox network with Tony Snow and the conversation is all about support for the war, the betrayal of the left intellectuals and "moral clarity." And yet there is still the left Hitchens with his campaign against Kissinger. On the one hand, he lives with those who believe in the absolute goodness of American power, and on the other he still writes about the awful reality of the use of that power.
Jacob Segal