3 posts tagged “hitchens”

I have to say I have a great deal of respect for Christopher Hitchens -- mainly for his atheist views and his pro stance on the war on terrorism.  And I think he is telling the truth on this matter.

See the video.  Read his article.

The “board” is the instrument, not the method. You are not being boarded. You are being watered. This was very rapidly brought home to me when, on top of the hood, which still admitted a few flashes of random and worrying strobe light to my vision, three layers of enveloping towel were added. In this pregnant darkness, head downward, I waited for a while until I abruptly felt a slow cascade of water going up my nose.

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I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

Christopher Hitchens on the recent events and the "good news" within Iraq.

...I am not at all certain that any of this apparently good news is really genuine or will be really lasting. However, I am quite sure both that it could be true and that it would be wonderful if it were to be true. What worries me about the reaction of liberals and Democrats is not the skepticism, which is pardonable, but the dank and sinister impression they give that the worse the tidings, the better they would be pleased. The latter mentality isn't pardonable and ought not to be pardoned, either.

Salute to one of our fallen by Christopher Hitchens.  Quite possibly, one of the best things I have read this year.  A very gripping piece.