Our valiant Neocon-errant showed remarkable courage at New York University's Skirball Center recently, drawing out his lance and defiantly declaring his controversial and unpopular stance of opposition to genocide, regardless of whomever may disagree. What a contrarian. A real polemicist.

Thankfully, our plucky Popinjay was far too brave and wise to let something trivial, like say his own longstanding support for genocide, distract him from such a wondrous performance, one not, of course, grandstanding nor sanctimonious in the very least.



The rest of the video is on the Youtube channel of our archnemesis "Daily Hitchens."

At the top of my head I can think of a few notable examples of Hitchens implicitly or explicitly endorsing genocide. Feel free, dear readers, to add in the comments any cases I've missed.

1. In a 2004 lecture, Hitchens weighed in on the then recent US massacre in Fallujah by offering this constructive criticism: "the death toll is not high enough... too many have escaped."

2. I would refer you fellow Hitchhunters to Comrade Richard Seymour's fine essay "The Genocidal Imagination Of Christopher Hitchens" where he explores our lad's penchant for genocide in some detail. For example, while this is not strictly support of genocide, Seymour recounts within his piece our Hitch on one occasion elucidating his nuanced views on matters war and peace: If you're actually certain that you're hitting only a concentration of enemy troops . . . then it's pretty good because those steel pellets will go straight through somebody and out the other side and through somebody else. And if they're bearing a Koran over their heart, it'll go straight through that, too. So they won't be able to say, "Ah, I was bearing a Koran over my heart and guess what, the missile stopped halfway through." No way, 'cause it'll go straight through that as well. They'll be dead, in other words.

3. Hitchens raised more than one eye-brow when he once notoriously argued in the pages of The Nation that Christopher Columbus and the massive genocide he mercilessly launched against the Native Americans, the largest in history, deserves to be "celebrated" with "much vim and gusto." In passing, he also noted, in the same paragraph, that the British were more "developed" than Indians, and spread "modernity and enlightenment" when India was ruled under the Raj, despite that in reality British colonialism tortured, robbed and raped that country and constantly created genocidal artificial famines that killed tens of millions of people.

4. Although he has lately somewhat distanced himself from Trotsky, Hitchens has nevertheless been a Trotskyist for most of his career and is still fairly sympathetic to the figure, regardless of the fact that Trotsky was a genocidal maniac and mass murderer who as head of the Red Army was, for instance, directly involved in the genocide of the Don and Kuban Cossacks in the Bolshevik's grisly "Decossackization" program.