Is the Koran a 10th-rate penal code? Is Bush the real terrorist? Tariq Ali in the red corner, Christopher Hitchens in the blue. Michael Bérubé was there... [more]
"Much of the support Hitchens ......... he regained when he asked one questioner whether anyone involved in the liberation struggles in South Africa or Chile would crash planes full of civilians into buildings full of civilians. "Can you imagine," he queried, picking up speed and heat as he went, "can you imagine Nelson Mandela or Salvador Allende giving that order?" It was easily his best moment. Then he followed it with a biting contrast between Arab support for Palestinian suicide bombers and Desmond Tutu's personally preventing members of the African National Congress from "necklacing" an informer"
Exactly.
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