[lbo-talk] Christopher Hitchens dead

[Rob Hoveman]

Hitchen's cheerleading for imperialist wars was not just towards the end of his life. I was learned from the eulogies to Hitchens on the BBC this morning that he supported the war of Thatcher's face in the Falklands/Malvinas, some 29 years, half his lifetime, ago. I do remember him enjoying Colonel Gaddafi's largesse in 1976, complete in neo-colonial white linen suit and suffering severely from the ban on alcohol in Tripoli.

Rob

On 16 Dec 2011, at 11:22, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Angelus Novus <
> fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Looking at the tribute threads at places like Reddit, it's strange to
>> realize that there are a whole generation of younger people for whom
>> Hitchens is a hero primarily because he wrote that book on his atheism.
>> That's basically what he's going to be remembered for, as being part of the
>> group that includes Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett.
>> 
> 
> I tend to assume that, much to Hitchens' misfortune, his cheerleading for
> multiple wars towards the end of his life will be remembered longer than
> that. Those things had real consequences. New Atheism has been a fun little
> intellectual diversion, like the Death of God theologians of the 1960s but
> without the substance. (And in fairness to the departed, he was the best of
> the bunch. Unlike those other two, he wrote rollicking good polemics,
> rather than droning bad arguments.)
> 
> -- 
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
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