Free Association: On Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)

Sunday, December 18, 2011

I'm confident the surviving parents and children of Iraq are not mourning Christopher Hitchens's passing. (Also see this.)

HV said...: Here's another great post on Hitchens - http://coreyrobin.com/2011/12/18/yes-but-more-on-hitchens-and-hagiography/.

"...that people can so quickly pivot from Hitchens’s position on the war to his other virtues—and nothing in this or my previous post should be construed as a denial of at least some of those virtues—tells us something about the culture he helped create and has left behind. It’s a culture that has developed far too easy a conscience about, and sleeps too soundly amid, the facts of war."; December 18, 2011 at 7:10 PM
Bill the Butcher said...: I'd wished Hitchens would have survived long enough to stand trial for war crimes, and be exterminated legally for them as he so richly deserved.; December 19, 2011 at 1:14 AM

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