Hitchens vs. Hitchens

[sophocles07]

Has anyone else watched this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...pher+hitchens&ei=04NpSP3lI5zQ4gL38JXAAg&hl=en

?

Christopher Hitchens and his brother debate some things.

I have to say: although I agree always with C. Hitchens on religion, on Iraq, his brother Peter (a very firm Christian) is correct on Iraq as a mistake.

(I've always been shocked, as is Bill Maher, that Christopher Hitchens is so correct on religion but manages to be so horrible on neo-conservativism.)

What

you

think?

 

[sophocles07]

note: I put this in Foreign policy because the first 30 minutes are on Iraq; religion etc is also discovered.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Christopher Hitchins is a neocon extraordinaire, if not worse.

 

[sophocles07]

C. Hitchens seems kind of a knee jerk in terms of politics. He used to be a Communist, then switched to Neo conservativism. He seems drawn to extreme positions, very irrational (ironically) in their movements.

It's fucking annoying. He's great on theism.

 

[sophocles07]

ANd when I say I like Hitchens I mean I like this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...pher+hitchens&ei=Hp5pSLyQA4ic4QLhq9nIAg&hl=en

 

[kombayn]

The reason he is for the war because of his stance on religion. He sees all the terrorists as "islamic-religious" fanatics. I don't think he's truly Neo-Conservative, but he's Pro-War because it's against a religious sect in the world.

 

[sophocles07]

The reason he is for the war because of his stance on religion. He sees all the terrorists as "islamic-religious" fanatics. I don't think he's truly Neo-Conservative, but he's Pro-War because it's against a religious sect in the world.

Yeah, but he's supporting a religious (JESUS FREAK) guy in his war against Muslims. It doesn't make sense. There's some irrational variable in this.

 

[Zulf]

Hitchens has nothing valuable to offer. I haven't seen any of his work to be intellectually simulating. Plus his full on full support for the Iraq war doesn't help.

He still believes that Al-Qeada had connections with Saddam. Still believes we needed to go to Iraq to "confirm" that Saddam didn't have WMD. No remorse for the 1 million killed, or for the complete destruction of Iraq.

How do i say this....uh.....the guy is a douche bag.

 

[AmericaFyeah92]

he claims that he forsake the Left-Wing because they were too easy on Islam (i think he has a point), but now he has just become a hyper-interventionist. Its odd that someone who supposedly admires T. Jefferson enough to write a biography about him still supports the neo-cons