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Leftism
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I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
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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".
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― The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
― The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
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