He's said it before, but it's worth noting that Hitchens is still "obliquely" calling for military action against Iran. Given everything that has happened in these last eight years, what with the disastrous consequences of the glorious massacre of Mesopotamia and all, the fact that Hitchens can still with a straight face call for something as outlandish as bombing Iran is pretty remarkable. He seems to revel in belonging to a lunatic fringe of unabashed warmongers at the extreme Right who are keen on policies that would engulf the Middle East in a firestorm the likes of which we've never seen before. Fortunately Hitchens has pretty much lost all credibility on foreign policy due to his fanatic and stubborn embrace to the bitter end of something as senseless as the war in Iraq, a failure historic in its proportions, so not too many people take these jingoist rants too seriously anymore. Let him go pal around with his Christianist buddies on The Never-Ending Book Tour for god Is Not Great, as he's now discredited and has rendered himself completely irrelevant on questions of war and peace.



This is Part 4 which includes his clumsy call for mass murdering Iranians. Here are Parts 1, 2, 3, and 5.

Incidentally, Part 5 also contains Hitchens' scandalous anti-caninite attacks on Irish Setters as "stupid, highly-strung, but dead loyal." I was amused to learn from Wikipedia that "Contrary to popular opinion, Irish Setters are neither stupid nor high-strung. Irish Setters respond swiftly to positive training, and are highly intelligent." See Hitch, it's even on Wikipedia. That means it's officially true.