fun within prescribed limits http://justagwailo.com/node/3301/atom/feed 2007-02-10T00:28:12-08:00 http://justagwailo.com/filter/2004/02/11/idiotic 2004-02-11T00:00:26-08:00 2007-02-10T00:28:12-08:00 Richard

Chris, on A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq by Christopher Hitchens, a book I have not read (I am confident that I've read most of the essays contained in it, however): “there is real evidence in the book that Hitchens genuinely cares about the well-being of Iraqis, which is more than I can say for a great many pro-war folks. Still, not a single piece in the book is free of idiotic remarks, fallacious inferences and all the rest. There's precious little honest argument, and almost no attempt to actually engage with positions other than his own. There is, in fact, almost no evidence that he even understands the more plausible anti-war arguments, since his attention is riveted nearly continually by the weakest and silliest anti-war arguments.”

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Chris, on A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq by Christopher Hitchens, a book I have not read (I am confident that I've read most of the essays contained in it, however): “there is real evidence in the book that Hitchens genuinely cares about the well-being of Iraqis, which is more than I can say for a great many pro-war folks. Still, not a single piece in the book is free of idiotic remarks, fallacious inferences and all the rest. There's precious little honest argument, and almost no attempt to actually engage with positions other than his own. There is, in fact, almost no evidence that he even understands the more plausible anti-war arguments, since his attention is riveted nearly continually by the weakest and silliest anti-war arguments.”

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