Pakistan Is the Enemy

We know that Pakistan's intelligence service is aiding terrorists. What are we going to do about it?
By Christopher Hitchens

In Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Lt. Milo Minderbinder transforms the mess accounts of the American airbase under his care into a "syndicate" under whose terms all servicemen are potential stakeholders. But this prince of entrepreneurs and middlemen eventually becomes overexposed, especially after some incautious forays into Egyptian cotton futures, and is forced to resort to some amoral subterfuges.

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Is Barack Obama Secretly Swiss?

The administration's pathetic, dithering response to the Arab uprisings has been both cynical and naive.
By Christopher Hitchens

"However meanly and grudgingly, even the new Republican speaker has now conceded that the president is Hawaiian-born and some kind of Christian. So let's hope that's the end of all that. A more pressing question now obtrudes itself: Is Barack Obama secretly Swiss?"
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Is Obama's Foreign Policy Working?

September 22, 2010. Elebash Recital Hall, New york. CH, Peter Beinart, George Packer.

The panel discusses America's position in, and relationship to, the rest of the world under Obama and whether or not his foreign policy has been effective.

From the N-Word to Code Words

The evolution of the race card in American politics.

By Christopher Hitchens

"At the beginning of the summer, my conservative friend David Frum made a joking remark that stayed with me. The evolution of right-wing abuse of President Barack Obama, he said, was not unlike the evolution of American pornography."

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Hitchens on Barack Obama (SWF 2010)

May 21, 2010. ABC1 Big Ideas. A panel discussion on Barack Obama, No He Can't? during the Sydney Writers' Festival 2010. Others on the panel are journalist Anne Davies and writer Don Watson. The moderator is Geoffrey Garrett from the United States Studies Centre.





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