> That's why he wrote a book skewering Mother Teresa?
Thanks for reminding me of that. I liked the Mother Teresa takedown at the time. But wasn't that the old Hitchens? The later Hitchens became a great friend of the Albanian Kosovars, if memory serves, as a cheerleader for the Clinton/NATO Balkan wars. But I had kinda lost interest in him by that time, so my memory is probably faulty.
My man Alex Cockburn just now had a nice line on Hitch and Teresa:
> Anyway, between the two of them, my sympathies were always with
> Mother Teresa. If you were sitting in rags in a gutter in Bombay, who
> would be more likely to give you a bowl of soup? You’d get one from
> Mother Teresa. Hitchens was always tight with beggars, just like the
> snotty Fabians who used to deprecate charity.
Whew. I hope Alex is not pissed at me when I go to meet Marx, as chairman Mao used to say.
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