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Posted in deep thought | Tagged Christopher Hitchens | 9 Comments

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1. on December 25, 2012 at 11:26 am massugu

   I’ve heard him reference the 10 Commandments before, but this is the 1st time I’ve seen his precepts codified. Bravo!

   
   
   • on December 25, 2012 at 11:29 am retrieverman

     Decades from now people will be reading Christopher Hitchens.

     I think the only reason why it took me so long to appreciate his genius is because he became the main intellectual cheerleader for the war in Iraq, a war that still upsets me even though it’s over.

     
     
2. on December 25, 2012 at 5:25 pm fainomenon

   he makes a very convincing case for his stance on the Iraq war in Hitch 22, his autobiography. In any case, he was a true genius and a very sorely missed one.

   
   
   • on December 25, 2012 at 7:02 pm retrieverman

     I’ve heard him make the case, and to honest, it wasn’t any more convincing than Rumsfeld’s.

     
     
3. on December 26, 2012 at 4:56 am chervilmeadow

   All this man did was to make some pretty obvious statements. It didn’t take a great mind for that.

   
   
   • on December 26, 2012 at 4:59 am retrieverman

     Except that there are millions of Americans who would consider what he said to be almost worthy of a death sentence.

     Hitchens did have a lot of good to say that needs to be thought through and more carefully considered.

     His moment of weakness was his support and rather strident support for the Iraq War, when it became obvious that the whole thing was based upon fear-mongering and outright misrepresentation.

     
     
     • on December 26, 2012 at 10:26 am massugu

       We each of us have feet of clay. Iraq was his.

       
       
   • on December 26, 2012 at 10:30 am massugu

     Peter, unless you’ve lived in the midst of America’s Bible Belt, you can’t imagine what a breath of fresh air Mr. Hitchen’s musings represent. Living this way one often feels as though (s)he is in a fortress battling off the ravenous Christian hordes. It wouldn’t be so bad if they kept it to themselves. But they are enjoined by their faith to proselytize–it can be very exhausting.

     
     
     • on December 26, 2012 at 10:31 am massugu

       Aron Ra is another “voice in the wilderness.”

       
       

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