>I have one of my pop psych hunches that Hitchens'
>continued plunge into lunacy is part of an unconsious
>attempt to destroy himself.
I've been speculating - irresponsibly, of course - that his obsession with "Islamofascism" is some kind of externalization of his anxiety over his misogyny and his formerly exuberant homosexuality. Killing the "Islamofascists" is a way of taking it out on his own demons.
Doug