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To: LindyBill who wrote (53281)	10/19/2002 8:45:13 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Is smirking like sneering or sarcasm? If so, I guess Hitchen's usage would be Nadine approved, since the accusation is pointed in the proper direction. The legions of bloviating neocon pundits would never smirk or sneer or stoop to sarcasm, though. Their pompously asserted "moral clarity" makes that totally unnecessary. Hitchens will have a hard time being heard over that din. Maybe given his alleged admiration of Orwell, he can come up with a new "war is peace" formulation to break out.

To: LindyBill who wrote (53281)	10/19/2002 9:38:46 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

we find among the Left now a sort of affectless, neutralist, smirking isolationism. Ahh, it's nice to have Hitchens writing on our side! Hitchens is actually much better than that. That sentence is dumb; it's own best parody. It's a little as if I typed in the term "Right" in place of the "Left." There may be a few folk on the left who deserve that sentence; and there are some on the right who might deserve it, Hitchens might wish, given his new politics, to include Pat Buchanan. But the broad stroke. No. Very weak writing. Perhaps he'll replace Andrew Sullivan in the Washington Times.