On Oct 17, 2006, at 3:48 PM, boddi satva wrote:
> Oh, yeah, but Hitchens - he reaches down into the muck and comes up
> with the claim even American movement conservatives won't use in a
> direct way:
>
> "And it's been noticed that Dr. Richard Horton, the editor of the
> magazine, is a full-throated speaker at rallies of the
> Islamist-Leftist alliance that makes up the British Stop the War
> Coalition"
I just read the New Yorker profile of Hitchens. Yuck. An excerpt:
> In 1982, Hitchens wrote an essay for The Nation about Evelyn
> Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited," and the point he was most keen to
> make was that although the First World War predates the action of
> the novel, it remains at the center of the story. Hitchens quoted
> at length from Waugh's honeyed description of the excursion made by
> Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte to the Venice of the early
> twenties, a passage of champagne cocktails and gondolas that ends
> with Sebastian saying, "It's rather sad to think that whatever
> happens you and I can never possibly get involved in a war."
>
> I asked Carol Blue about this passage. She said that her husband,
> who was brought up in an English military family in the years
> following the Second World War, had an aspect of "those men who
> were never really in battle and wished they had been. There's a
> whole tough-guy, 'I am violent, I will use violence, I will take
> some of these people out before I die' talk, which is really key to
> his psychology-I don't care what he says. I think it is partly to
> do with his upbringing."