"Degenerate hackery"
There's an excellent piece by Marc Mulholland on the latest Christopher Hitchen's rant-about-nothing-in-particular.A recent interview conducted by Johann Hari bemoaned Hitchens’ estrangement from the Left. "Come home, Hitch - we need you" ended Johann plaintively. This was an affecting, not to say pathetic spectacle. Hitchens is not coming back. His contempt for the Left – all of it - is palpable. Pro-war leftists hold their nose while supporting the Neo-Con foreign policy of the Bush administration. They still see the administration, in the round, as reprehensibly right wing. Hitchens holds his nose when he dallies with the pro-war Left. He despises them, and identifies exclusively with a faction of Bush’s party. He has shaken the dust from his feet.
ps Reading some other blogs I'm reminded that Hitchens' position is even more ridiculous than it looks. He has been a major proponent in the press that Reagan/Bush enjoyed their own 'October surprise' back in 1980. This of course was when the second cold war was ramping up, a war in which America's existence really was in threat, and surely less of a time for 'dicking around'.
posted by Matthew @ 9/28/2004 03:21:00 PM
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