Wow, just when you thought Hitchens couldn't get any worse. I wonder what imperialist war he'll start defending next; the Boer war? Or perhaps he'll discover the progressive, modernizing core of the Opium Wars.
Hitchens's article also contains this hilarious line:
"The kaiser visited Damascus and paid for the rebuilding of the tomb of Saladin, announced himself a sympathizer of Islam and a friend of jihad..." http://www.newsweek.com/id/141501
Wilhelm II, the bin Laden of 1914!
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