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Drowning Christopher

Fri, 07/04/2008 - 9:33am — vastleft

Hitchens came for the war against Islamofascism, and stayed for the waterboarding.

Turns out he didn't like the latter so much. If he doesn't mind, this is one perspective that I'm happy to take on faith.

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Too Bad He Didn't Invite Volunteers To Administer The Test

By leah on Fri, 07/04/2008 - 11:29am

I'm not alone, I'm sure, in being sure that I would have been more than happy to sign up.

So typical of Hitchens, me, I, and my shadow - we're the world. No thoughts in his piece about how his own political positions, his own writing since 9/11 just might have enabled this administration's embrace of torture, I'm sure it's safe to assume.

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Notably, he left out Abu Ghraib entirely

By vastleft on Fri, 07/04/2008 - 11:45am

Fair enough that he builds the case that "24" fans in the military use. But he leaves out the obvious evidence that we -- with our ritualized humiliations of prisoners, and our preemptive war (some even shamelessly call it a "proxy war," killing Iraqis because it's less convenient to kill somebody else) can be reasonably argued to possess a high ground in this clusterfuck.

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I would have paid good money to see that

By cenobite on Fri, 07/04/2008 - 1:15pm

Also, Michelle Malkin said

I can see agreeing to waterboarding for an article like the one Hitchens was writing.

I would have paid even more good money to see that.

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