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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (419523)12/18/2011 8:00:29 AM
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Christopher Hitchens was certainly a strange bird. When I first started reading him in the 1980s, he was undoubtably a person of the left. His main media outlet was the leftist rag The Nation. Then in the past decade his opionions turned from leftist/socialist to more nationalist and conservative. His enthusatic support for the wars against the Islamic world were just bizzare given some of his past political stances of human needs over war spending (during the Reagan era). Then he split further with the left by taking an anti-abortion stance. All in all, Christopher Hitchens was never afraid to stake out his opinion whether it was popular amongst his fellow travelers or not. I did like to read his work though. The The Trial of Henry Kissinger was a great read. But oddly, he seemed to support Kissenger-like imperial policies over the last decade as he turned his attention to supporting the war against the Islamic world.
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