My little ankle-strap sandals curled with embarrassment for her.
Christopher HitchensI respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.
Christopher HitchensTag: anti-war isolationism middle-east noninterventionism
Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.
Christopher HitchensTag: anti-war realism noninterventionism
The friends of Galtieri, Saddam Hussein, Mullah Omar and Milosevic make unconvincing defenders of humanitarian values, and it can be seen that their inept and sometimes inane arguments lack either the principles or the seriousness that are required in such debates.
Christopher HitchensTag: pacifism anti-war leftism
If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a trampled and cleansed province of Greater Serbia, Kosovo would have been emptied of most of its inhabitants, and the Taliban would still be in power in Afghanistan. Yet nothing seems to disturb the contented air of moral superiority of those that intone the "peace movement".
Christopher HitchensTag: pacifism anti-war leftism noninterventionism peace-movement
There is a tendency on the left, to think if someone in any way disagrees with the left it must be for the lowest possible reason and if you found the lowest possible motive you have found the right one. Theres this whole culture of no one would leave us or quarrel with us if they weren't a sellout. It is actually a very sick mentality and very widespread.
Christopher HitchensA melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.
Christopher HitchensTag: friendship ageing
mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.
Christopher HitchensTag: kindlehighlight
Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.
Christopher HitchensTag: self-esteem crime voltaire turkey candide war-crimes naivete henry-kissinger cyprus 1974 turkish-invasion-of-cyprus
[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.
Christopher HitchensTag: guilt greece henry-kissinger cyprus moral-responsibility cyprus-dispute makarios-iii
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