Too bad for Hitchens - but he\'s hopeless by now
That was a truly bad piece of writing by Hitchens. His (more and more desperate) political stance regarding Iraq makes him go overboard.
As usual, politics get in the way of art.
Harold Pinter is a great writer, no matter whether he is a fanatic supporter of the war in Iraq or a fanatical opponent. Ezra Pound was a great poet, despite his overt sympathy for fascism. Louis-Ferdinand Céline was a collaborator of the German occupiers of France but he nonetheless wrote "Voyage au bout de la nuit". T. S. Elliot wrote some odious anti-semitic tracts but he is still magnificent. Mario Vargas Llosa has been denounced by every lefty in South Americe yet he is among the solid writers of the continent. A heapload of "leftist" writers are crap, despite being consistently, honorably against the war in Iraq.
The liver of Hitchens is long gone, by most accounts. His brain cells cannot be far behind.
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