The Mystery of Hitchens's Mind (was: Re: Bush Names Kissinger to Head 9/11 Probe)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Anthony Tothe:
>>   I agree with both comments below...I always found Hitchens almost
>>  unreadable.  He always wants us to see how smart he is.  One of the reasons
>>  I use to read his Nation column was to just see how many words he used that
>>  I did know.  I frankly hate that...the political world is not so complex
>>  that it can't be explained in plain simple English.  Hitch is not alone in
>>  this...many politicos write in such a way that only other members of their
>>  class can decipher what the hell they are trying to say. Maybe "Empire"
>>  being the most recent and prime example.
>
>In the case of Hitchens, I don't believe there's anything to
>decipher.  Of course, I haven't read the complete _oeuvre_.
>The thought of focusing on someone as odious as Henry Kissinger
>for the length of a whole book is beyond my imagination, so
>something must be said for Hitchens's fortitude even if he
>is ideologically compromised.
>
>-- Gordon

What makes me wonder is why anyone should focus on Henry Kissinger, 
rather than the social relations that demand the sort of work he did. 
It is not as though he is the only US secretary of state who is 
guilty of enforcing the rule of the empire either.
-- 
Yoshie

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