Hitchspotting
Christopher Hitchens is still busy. The most recent targets of abuse:
Jimmy Carter -
'peanut czar, home-builder, Nobel laureate, and Baptist big mouth'
Human Shields -
'The funniest news of the past week, incidentally, was the decision of the "human shield" volunteer activists to run away from Iraq. Most of them obviously didn't have the guts for it, but some of them, one hopes, had finally worked out what it was they were really shielding.'
The Catholic Church -
'I suppose if Saddam came out for partial-birth abortions or the ordination of women or the acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle he might be hit with a condemnation of some sort. (Until recently, one might have argued that his abuse of children would get him in hot water with the Vatican, too. But even that expectation now seems vain.)'
The skepticism over "church" proclaimations on warring seem to go without saying and although Hitch is eloquent in his letters these inconsistencies are really not hard to find. It merits acknowledgement nevertheless.
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