Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: E' morto Christopher Hitchens

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011
 
 
Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician,
fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62.
Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010,
just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began
chemotherapy soon after. His matchless prose has appeared in Vanity
Fair since 1992, when he was named contributing editor.
 
“Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered
and even solipsistic,” Hitchens wrote nearly a year ago in Vanity
Fair, but his own final labors were anything but: in the last 12
months, he produced for this magazine a piece on U.S.-Pakistani
relations in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, a portrait of Joan
Didion, an essay on the Private Eye retrospective at the Victoria and
Albert Museum, a prediction about the future of democracy in Egypt, a
meditation on the legacy of progressivism in Wisconsin, and a series
of frank, graceful, and exquisitely written essays in which he
chronicled the physical and spiritual effects of his disease. At the
end, Hitchens was more engaged, relentless, hilarious, observant, and
intelligent than just about everyone else—just as he had been for the
last four decades.
 
“My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the
presence of friends,” he wrote in the June 2011 issue. He died in
their presence, too, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,
Texas. May his 62 years of living, well, so livingly console the many
of us who will miss him dearly.

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È una notizia dolorosa da diversi punti di vista
 
-- 
recoil is insignificant when there is a tiger on the head of your elephant

Il 16/12/11 08.42, נחום ha scritto:
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Mi dispiace molto.
 
PP

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http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011
 
 
finest orator of our time, fellow horseman, valiant fighter against all tyrants
including God (Richard Dawkins)
 
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uomo bianco parla con lingua biforcuta.
 
il Diamat ט la spiegazione di tutte le cose

 finest orator of our time, fellow horseman, valiant fighter
 
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2006/03/overstating_jewish_power.html
 
 
Mearsheimer and Walt present the situation as one where the Jewish
tail wags the American dog, and where the United States has gone to
war in Iraq to gratify Ariel Sharon, and where the alliance between
the two countries has brought down on us the wrath of Osama Bin Laden.
This is partly misleading and partly creepy.
[...]
Mearsheimer and Walt belong to that vapid school that essentially
wishes that the war with jihadism had never started. Their wish is
father to the thought that there must be some way, short of a fight,
to get around this confrontation. Wishfulness has led them to
seriously mischaracterize the origins of the problem and to produce an
article that is redeemed from complete dullness and mediocrity only by
being slightly but unmistakably smelly.

 to get around this confrontation. 
 
 
Forse pensano anche loro che sia un problema di cucina e balli tipici.

Forse pensano anche loro che sia un problema di cucina e balli tipici.
 
se uno legge tutto l'articolo, anzichč la frasetta che fa comodo a Nahum, vede
che la critica della tesi della Israel lobby NON implica l'assenza di critiche
a Israele. Anzi, Hitchens rivendica il diritto di criticare Israele  con piů
forza (e argomenti piů fondati) dei due accademici. 
 
"Almost everybody also concedes that the Israeli occupation has been a moral
and political catastrophe and has implicated the United States in a sordid
and costly morass. I would have gone further than Mearsheimer and Walt and
pointed up the role of Israel in supporting apartheid in South Africa, in providing
arms and training for dictators in Congo and Guatemala, and helping reactionary
circles in America do their dirty work—most notably during the Iran-Contra
assault on the Constitution and in the emergence of the alliance between Likud
and the Christian right. "
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uomo bianco parla con lingua biforcuta.
 
il Diamat č la spiegazione di tutte le cose

 forza (e argomenti più fondati) dei due accademici.
 
aha, quindi non erano argomenti fondati.
Ora, se vuoi spiegare cosa Hitchens pensava dell'islamismo radicale...
O forse preferisci che siano altri?
 
 

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pensava che fosse da combattere, quello che lo rendeva patetico è
credere che un cristiano rinato possa combattere l'integralismo...

 
 
stalinist dandy ha scritto:
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Bombacci, stai parlando male di un morto. Pedditte.

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che aveva certe opinioni da vivo.

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non risulta abbia mai copincollato una lista farlocca. Ti e' superiore
in questo.

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le scemenze sulla lotta alla jihad fatta in Iraq le scriveva da solo,
che è pure peggio

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ti piace discutere con i morti, vero? Non ti intendi di rispetto, cmq.
Che almeno, per postare le tue cazzate, potresti aspettare.
 
 

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non discuto con nessuno, dico che quelle cose sono idiozie. E lo
dicevo pure prima, nei forum degli atei

 nei forum degli atei
 
fermate le rotative (cit.).