Christopher Hitchens on Katrina

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I hate/love you, Nabisco.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link

He's fighting an odd battle there, because I don't think the "it's because of Iraq" meme has really taken hold in the talk about New Orleans. I mean, it's floated here and there, and often mentioned in passing as something that certainly didn't make anything easier, but it hardly makes up the central plank of criticisms of the administration's response.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

"This has all the charm and beauty of John Kerry saying that we ought not to be opening firehouses in Baghdad while closing them in the United States. It also has all the easy appeal of a zero-sum, provincial, isolationist mentality."

Does Hitchens ever actually offer a reason why we SHOULD be closing fire houses at home while opening them in Iraq?

― NC, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

More of Iraq is on fire?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't see where building new things to burn helps prevent that.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm glad he calls shit on the War on Drugs. Maybe he can join forces with his former Sith lord Gore Vidal to script the War on Dandruff's first manifesto.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Okay, no mo War On Drugs/Missle Shield, and then we can antijihad all we want to, and have uh infrastructure too--but has he ever mentioned Bush's allegience to the plutocracy from which he sprung (like permanent tax cuts, incl. looming cut in "death tax"? And pumping for CAFTA, pimping for Social Security's Wall St. pinata-ization?)

― don, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

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