[lbo-talk] Hitchens in my inbox

[Brian O. Sheppard]

Some of you care a lot more about Hitchens than I do. I subscribe to a
"Daily Philosophical Quotation" email list that sends out a 'philosophical
quote' every morning. Philosophers featured have included Nietzsche, Kant,
Russell, Descartes, etc. But on the morning of April 25 this gem was in my
inbox.

Brian

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As someone who has done a good deal of marching and public speaking about
Vietnam, Chile, South Africa, Palestine and East Timor in his time (and
would do it all again), I can only hint at how much I despise a Left that
thinks of Osama bin Laden as a slightly misguided anti-imperialist. (He
actually says he wants to restore the old imperial caliphate and has
condemned the Australian-led international rescue of East Timor as a
Christian plot against Muslim Indonesia). Or a Left that can think of
Milosevic and Saddam as victims.

Christopher Hitchens

    --The Washington Post   20 October 2002