April 30, 2005
Christopher Hitchens, Right-Wing Obscurantist
Alan Koenig in the Old Town Review Chronicles:
Back in October of 1991, a younger, more radical Christopher Hitchens wrote a superb essay entitled “A State within a State” for Harper’s magazine plumbing some of the more recent filthy deeds and unconstitutional crimes committed by the CIA. Hitchens favorably mentioned in passing the crusading work of a certain Senator John Kerry, who unearthed both financial links between corrupt Saudis, South American drug smugglers and the CIA (in the notorious Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)) and investigated the links between narcotics and the Nicaraguan Contras. But that was a far different, much less courageous Senator Kerry from the one that ran for President this past November, and alas, we have a far different and much diminished Hitchens to contend with as well.
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The bizzare praise Hitchens has heaped on fanatical conspiracy theorist Laurie Mylroie and his repeated attempts to whitewash Ahmed Chalabi have never been explained. There is something weirdly naive and gullible about the new Hitchens - he has gone tone-deaf. While Mylroie suggests that Saddam was behind the first attack on the World Trade Center AND the Oklahoma City bombings, Hitchen blurbed one of her books thus:
In the face of the glibly repeated slogan that America is ‘in search of enemies,’ Mylroie shows that many in our intelligence establishment are fatally unable to recognize an enemy even when they meet one. A caustic and spirited statement of the original case for regime change.”
Posted by: J. M. Tyree | Apr 30, 2005 4:53:07 PM
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