By Thomas Ruttig
"A reply to Chistopher Hitchens’ under-researched rant against what he calls the human rights ‘activists’ community that ‘finally notices the Taliban's war crimes’. AAN’s senior analyst Thomas Ruttig points to some reports that show how far this is from truth."
Read More http://www.aan-afghanistan.org/index.asp?id=1502
Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.

Popular Posts
-
Mr Steve Wasserman, Christopher Hitchens' literary agent, kindly replied to my query about a possible memorial. Posted with permission. ...
-
At reddit.com there are comments on Hitchens having breathing issues at the airport. This would explain the cancellations. Hopefully it'...
-
Some DH visitors seem to have an urge to post and express themselves quite off topic to published posts. I've added a comment box where ...
-
Only a short clip from the conversation. This is embedded from the 92nd Street Y Channel. Why not right-click, watch it on YouTube and post ...
-
By Lawrence Krauss The world, which Christopher Hitchens would have happily admitted was already pretty dark, got a little darker yester...
-
Time has come to publish the last post on this site. I've been posting links and articles for three years, and it's been great. I a...
-
The iconoclast Christopher Hitchens loved life and delighted in "doing and thinking and writing all the things that he had always don...
-
By Peter Hitchens I can’t really claim that I never notice the extraordinarily spiteful attacks on me which come from one particular qua...
-
New Statesman: "You may need to set aside the rest of your Saturday to get through this, but here in full is the transcript of the long...
-
The professor's pronouncements about Osama Bin Laden are offensive and ignorant. By Christopher Hitchens "Anybody visiting th...

Baseless Words - or: A Little Coaching for Christopher Hitchens
February 17, 2011Posted by Tom at 06:06
Labels: 2011, Afghanistan, Christopher Hitchens, Taliban, Thomas Ruttig
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
6 comments:
Ruttig seems to miss the point entirely. Weird.
Tom, why are you giving such prominence on your website to this obscure person? I work in the field of international affairs, including Afghanistan, and have never heard of this person, and he has no particualr standing or authority in the field. You are flattering him enormously, by what I think is a rare editorial misjudgement on your part. But keep up the good work otherwise.
Ben
Ben, to say I'm flattering someone enormously is, well, I should thank you I suppose but this is not an official Hitchens website, or NYT or CNN, just a blog. But I appreciate your comment, you say what you think of the guy. After all it's just another Hitchens related post, the reader can make up his/her own mind on the quality of the article..and comment on it.
If you ignore the spelling and grammatical mistakes, the article is alright - if there was factual error, then that's a fair point to raise.
Actually, as much as I love his writing, one of the things that irks me about it is how difficult it is to know where Hitch is getting his information. Now, I'm not one to have another do my homework for me, and most of the times the info Hitchens gives is eerily accurate, but pointing the reader towards the relevant literature doesn't hurt.
(Oh, and I misread the title of this as "Coaching from CH", and got all excited that this was going to be a sort of field-guide or tutorial on argumentation and rhetoric from the man himself.)
Aww. Butthurt.
It would be really awesome if Hitch wrote a reply to this article as I do think Ruttig has missed the point.
Post a Comment