If you read the reference, you will see that the use was Hitchens' scathing and sarcastic characterization of the attitudes toward Islam of Milosevic:
<<<But in the end, after appalling false starts and delays, it was found that Milosevic was too much. He wasn't just too nasty. He was also too irrational and dangerous. He didn't even save himself by lyingly claiming, as he several times did, that Osama bin-Laden was hiding in Bosnia. It must be said that by this, and by other lies and numberless other atrocities, Milosevic distinguished himself as an enemy of Islam. His national-socialist regime took the line on the towel-heads that the Bush Administration is only accused, by fools and knaves, of taking. Yet when a stand was eventually mounted against Milosevic, it was Noam Chomsky and Sam Husseini, among many others, who described the whole business as a bullying persecution of--the Serbs! I have no hesitation in describing this mentality, carefully and without heat, as soft on crime and soft on fascism.>>>
CH is sometimes too allusive and subtle for his own good. The explanation will take up more time than the point was worth. |
