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Christopher Hitchens: Rhetoric, Religion, and Ramadan

Decoding the Gurus

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The Utopian Vision of Iraq

Hitchens argues back and I think he also makes good points so here's his response. "I don't greatly care to be told as if I didn't know that in Iraqi life is as precious as an American one" Hitchens: Some fascist philosophers not all fascists. Maybe there's a weird fascist philosophy that doesn't rest on ethnomationalism but anyway my point is not to promote fascism or capitalism. No no no no. And as someone who's visited Iraq quite a lot had the occasion to think about it a good deal."

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