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=> I'll never get over Hitchens.....

I'll never get over Hitchens.....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, July 9 2016, 20:57:10 (UTC)
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...I wouldn't say I'm obsessed...but baffled and mystified....it's also a lesson about life and things on so many levels...the man had gained honors everywhere yet in the last years of his life he made a mockery of it all....why? Was it accidental? Was it the booze? Did he want to side with the State in order to make more money for his family...to be more popular?

These neo-cons always prefer to spill their tripe where they are protected...where no one really has a chance to blow holes through their ridiculous "views"....they steer clear of confrontation or "unfriendly" questions...if they can't have the last word and if it isn't bullshit at that, then they just won't appear.

Who couldn't bring Bill O'Reilley to tears, if Bill couldn't run away? Who, here, couldn't reduce Harris to a babbling idiot?

And that was the mistake Hitchens made. Sure of himself, of his forensic skills in all the debates and confrontations with the religious, Hitchens thought he could do the same on the subject of the Iraq war and Bush and neo-con plans.....and he made the mistake of thinking he could do it in open debate and against George Galloway, of all people. That was his critical error of judgement...or hubris.

Hitchens found it easy to destroy priests and reverends and Mother Theresa, and why not? They were spouting pure nonsense, fairy tales, it was easy to expose. I mean he could have been debating against someone who believed the story of Jack and the Beanstalk actually happened and was revealed religion, as much as Jonah and the whale...it really didn't take much to "expose" such people and beliefs.....but, against Galloway it turned out that Hitchens was the one spouting nonsense and also "faith-based" confidence in Bush and his goals for Iraq.

I still find it difficult, as well as unpleasant and even painful, to think Hitchens actually believed what he said in that debate and in articles he wrote praising the "liberation" of Iraq and the wild-assed promises he made about how Iraq would soon be "great".

How can intelligent people be SO stupid, you ask? I don;t know, but many are.



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