Christopher Hitchens: I'm Dying

[Swami Dring]

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/07/v ... d-atheism/

[J.W. Frogen]

Everyone who opposed the Iraq war needs to read Hitch 22, the chapter on why he supported, and still does, the liberation of that long suffering country from the Saddam crime family.

The chapter is forensic, passionate, it dispels many of the myths propagated by the anti-war Left and at the end when he discusses the late and noble soldier Mark Daily, who was partially motivated to serve in Iraq due to Hitchen's, is a real tear jerker.

One of the passages that made me laugh out loud is where Hitchens details his time in theater at the start of the war, how many of the anti war journalists who now claim everyone knew there were no WMDs donned gas masks and ducked for cover in chemical proof bunkers every time a scud missile was lobbed over head.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Hitch was bit rough on old Mother Teresa: in his eyes she consorted with dictators. I like to think she saw the the spiritual being in each of these men.

[J.W. Frogen]

I have read part of the book, Hitch does seem to make a pretty good case Moma T just created unsanitary warehouses of death rather than real medical facilities that treat those who could be saved and let those who can not die in dignity.

She believed suffering is a gift from God and so did little with the money she raised to alleviate it, rather she spent most on convents glorifying her name.

Penn and Teller did an expose' on her, they contemptuously called her "Mother Fucking Teresa".

That still makes me laugh.

[Mattus]

Well stated, logical and to the point. The man is a razorblade.

It's a damn shame. Fuck you cancer. Fuck you in the ear.

[J.W. Frogen]

And yet Michael Douglass will survive a similar type of cancer, proving there is a God, but he is demented and has really bad aesthetic taste.

[Guest]

And yet Michael Douglass will survive a similar type of cancer, proving there is a God, but he is demented and has really bad aesthetic taste.

Gordon Gekko: Lunch is for wimps. Real men get cancer instead.

[J.W. Frogen]

See, I am a moderate, I will do sushi for lunch and take my mercury medicine.

[J.W. Frogen]

Christopher Hitchens writes that when he was in Bosnia he proved there are atheists in fox holes.


Interestingly, Hitchens sites Bosnia as the event that moved him, almost imperceptibly, to some advocacy of US military power to smite tyranny, writing "When decoded, this internal yell took the form of a rather simple plea that the United States Air Force appear in the Bosnian skies and fill with fear and trembling the fat, red, broken-veined faces of the crack Serbian artillery-men who had never until then lost a battle against civilians."

I know what he means having been there for a considerable period and feeling that exact same rage far too long.

I am proud to say it was US Navy planes the first got the call to do just that.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Hitch writes, "While my so far uncancerous throat, let me rush to assure my Christian correspondent above, is not at all the only organ with which I have blasphemed "
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/featu ... ens-201010

Wit at its finest.