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Christopher Hitchens on Benazir Bhutto's death
London Telegraph ^
| 29/12/2007
| Christopher Hitchens
Posted on 12/29/2007 5:37:27 PM PST by Aristotelian
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When Hitchens is good, he's very good.
To: Aristotelian
He gets the WoT, too bad he misses the mark on other issues.
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posted on
12/29/2007 5:45:19 PM PST
by
kalee
To: Aristotelian
BumP..
It’s rough being a populist these days.
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posted on
12/29/2007 5:48:26 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
To: kalee
Forgive me, but I don’t know the meaning of WoT. I tried looking the acronym up, but nothing made sense. Please, clue me in.
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posted on
12/29/2007 6:01:24 PM PST
by
Aristotelian
("Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?")
To: kalee
He gets the WoT,
too bad he misses the mark on other issues .
Are you referring, for example, to his view on Henry Kissinger as a war criminal?
To: Aristotelian
Wheel of Time,or something like it!
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posted on
12/29/2007 6:03:10 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: Aristotelian
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posted on
12/29/2007 6:04:12 PM PST
by
The Mayor
( A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.—Proverbs 16:9)
To: Aristotelian
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posted on
12/29/2007 6:05:17 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: Aristotelian
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posted on
12/29/2007 6:06:05 PM PST
by
kalee
To: Aristotelian
It’spainfulto read these atheist idiots, and I don’t. I mean, what’s the foundation of their morality, Karl Marx, or Lenin? We don’t share a common denominator with them. Why be upset about this event, if you’re an atheist in a godless universe?!
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posted on
12/29/2007 6:08:53 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(We all need someone we can bleed on...)
To: Aristotelian; M. Espinola
From the article itself:
This is what makes her murder such a disaster. There is at least some reason to think that she had truly changed her mind, at least on the Taliban and al-Qa'eda, and was willing to help lead a battle against them. She had, according to some reports, severed the connection with her rather questionable husband. She was attempting to make the connection between lack of democracy in Pakistan and the rise of mullah-manipulated fanaticism.
Of those preparing to contest the highly dubious upcoming elections, she was the only candidate with anything approaching a mass appeal to set against the siren calls of the fundamentalists. And, right to the end, she carried on without the fetish of "security" and with lofty disregard for her own safety.
Bhutto may have been the last chance for Pakistani democracy. You are correct about Hitchens -- he is spot on here.
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posted on
12/29/2007 6:23:30 PM PST
by
ex-Texan
(Matthew 7: 1 - 6)
To: Aristotelian
but I dont know the meaning of WoTIn Hitchen's case, wacky old turd
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posted on
12/29/2007 6:46:06 PM PST
by
llevrok
( "In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom. In water, there is bacteria." - Ben Franklin)
To: Aristotelian
Spoken like a well indoctrinated defeatist Eurocrat. He portrays her life as a tainted pearl thrown to swine.
How smug.
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posted on
12/29/2007 6:48:33 PM PST
by
Earthdweller
(The liberal MSM...Buddies of Romney F Kerry and the socialist march to China)
To: Aristotelian
When Hitchens is good, he's very good.Yes. Thanks.
To: Aristotelian
What I find odd about this is she provided a pattern that could be exploited to kill. It was almost like a death wish. She knew that she was on the top of a hit list and that they had the ability to send 100’s of murders at once against her.
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posted on
12/29/2007 7:37:23 PM PST
by
Domangart
(editor and publisher)
To: Aristotelian
WoT = Wheel of Terror, a popular TV show in Muslim nations where the contestants guess the number of letters in various bomb designs, explosives, equations for detonators, etc., hosted by al-Sajak and a masked woman built suspiciously like Helen Thomas.
SCARY TV show.
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posted on
12/29/2007 7:43:38 PM PST
by
mkjessup
(Hunter-Bolton '08 !! Patriots who will settle for nothing less than *Victory* in the War on Terror!)
To: ex-Texan; Aristotelian
Well stated. Now the problem is preventing the Al-Qaida/Taliban axis, bankrolled in part by the Saudis, from gaining control of Pakistan nuclear weapons arsenal.
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12/29/2007 9:45:23 PM PST
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never 'free')
To: M. Espinola
Re Saudi Arabia, General David Petraeus in an end-of-year briefing for journalists in Baghdad Saturday described progress by Iraq’s neighbors, saying attacks using Iranian weapons had declined and praising Syria and Saudi Arabia for curbing the flow of foreign fighters.
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posted on
12/29/2007 9:57:33 PM PST
by
Aristotelian
("Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?")
To: Aristotelian
And with this piece he is very good.
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posted on
12/29/2007 10:08:00 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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posted on
12/29/2007 10:12:10 PM PST
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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