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"If the Iranian Revolutionary Guards get the bomb, they won't use it on Israel. They're not so stupid. They certainly won't use it on us," – Hitch.

But Hitch still wants a US invasion of Iran to remove the regime! Here's the money quote:

Hitchens: How many Iranian dissidents are really going to be nationalistically upset by an intervention that comes in and removes the Revolutionary Guards?

Totten: I don't think very many, but I could be wrong.

Hitchens: Would we have the nerve to say that was the objective, or would we simply say we're only talking about sites and don't care about Iranian freedom? We'd need to have a generous view of the situation, and we'd need to coordinate it with NATO. The people who most want this to happen are the Sunni Arab governments.

So even though he believes the US is not directly threatened and Israel is not directly threatened, he wants to commit the US (leaving aside the total unfeasibility of this, given what's going on in Iraq and Afghanistan) not to a namby-pamby bombing campaign but a full-scale armed invasion in defense of … Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, and Qatar! I mean: is this supposed to be a serious argument? The point is capped off with this remark:

What's the point of being a superpower if we say to our allies there's nothing we can do about this, that they're on their own?

Interventionism to prove what a big dick you've got?

Someone needs to sign these guys: (Hat tip: TDW)

From Failblog.

From the horse’s mouth: Well, call me old-fashioned if you will, but I have always taken the view that swastika symbols exist for one purpose only—to be defaced. Telling my two companions to hold on for a second, I flourish my trusty felt-tip and begin to write some offensive words on the offending poster. I … Continue reading Hitch Speaks!

Ed Yong looks at Jeremy Ginges’s research and the connection between religion and violence: Together, these four studies…contradict the idea that religious belief and devotion in themselves are the driving force behind the suicide bombing mindset. Nor is this mindset exclusive to Islam… Ginges studied a wide variety of religious people from various cultures and … Continue reading Hitchens Bait

A man could get a reputation. He defaced a poster for the Syrian Nazis and all hell broke loose: Later that night, three of our "scoop" brigade–Jonathan Foreman, Michael Totten and Christopher Hitchens–got involved in a street brawl with some thugs of a Syria-loving skinhead party called the SSNP after Hitchens rather gallantly insulted their … Continue reading Hitch And The Syrian Nazis

Britain comes up with a plan to save its economy: For exactly two minutes on March 6th at 11.00am our consortium of psychics and healers will act as a channel for the positive thoughts of the entire country… With over 80 million people concentrating their mental energies at the same time on the same day, … Continue reading Hitchens Bait

Fighting back:

His first sentence in his new column: It was apt in a small way that the first endorser of Hillary Rodham Clinton for secretary of state should have been Henry Kissinger. Does it get any better?

It took him a while to get warmed up about this farce of a candidate, but it’s worth the wait: This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who … Continue reading Hitch On Palin