I'm inclined to like a guy willing to question
the deification of Mother Theresa, but he's making it perfectly clear he has no
interest in being anything but an intellectually dishonest big mouth. In his
take on Fahrenheit 9/11, Hitch criticizes Moore for the film's ambiguity
-- "Either the Saudis run U.S. policy (through family ties or overwhelming
economic interest), or they do not. As allies and patrons of the Taliban regime,
they either opposed Bush's removal of it, or they did not." I like the idea
of thinking about the ways of the world in either/or statements. That way, I can
keep it all in a spreadsheet and make pie charts. Of course, Hitchens criticizing
anyone for a supposed lack of logical coherence and consistency is just funny.
But I guess he got his big shmancy Slate headline graphic, so on to the
next.
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