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Please stop embarrassing yourself.

1.) Someone who equates “left” with “liberal” needs to hop on planes across the Atlantic more often. This whole liberal-vs.-conservative dichotomy is pretty much a U.S. only phenomenon, and someone who doesn’t know that probably hasn’t read enough Hitchens, to be honest.

2.) To quote, real quick: “Like other neo-Cons, Hitchens rarely commented or examined the cause of the Islamic hatred of America i.e. U.S bases in the Holy Land; prejudiced treatment of the Palestinians; economic sanctions against Muslim countries; and support of tyrannical Arab dictators.”

Yeah, these accusations are usually made by _other_ tyrannical Arab dictators or regimes, established or otherwise. Hitch did speak to these issues often and elaborately enough to dismantle them quite convincingly; Thomas Jefferson already went to war with barbaric Muslims (as we called “Islamofascists” back then) during his time as president. U.S. bases in the Holy Land is a bullshit reason to want to kill someone over, and worthy of no respect. Economic sanctions against Muslim countries – same there. And finally, let’s not bullshit, bin Laden said (and this is Hitch’s paraphrasing that I’m paraphrasing) “we will never forgive you for taking East Timor from us” – how’s that for being anti dictatorship.

Please don’t misrepresent Hitch. I’m quite sure he wouldn’t have misrepresented you if you’d have gone first. Do write though, and do criticize. If your timing is “offensive”, then remember what Hitch himself would’ve thought that criticism was worth.

I’ll miss his writing – whether it made me smile or cringe. Good obit!

Hitchens was only human, whatever else he might have been.