“If despair among Palestinians was enough to create psychopathic criminal behavior, there’s been enough despair for a long time, and enough misery to go around. It is to excuse the vicious, filthy forces of Islamic jihad to offer any other explanation but that it is their own evil preaching, their own vile religion, their own racism, their own apocalyptic ideology that makes them think they have the right to kill everyone in this room, and go to paradise as a reward. I won’t listen, nor should you, to anyone who euphemizes or excuses this evil wicked thing.”
~Christopher Hitchens
“Christopher Hitchens vs. Chris Hedges: The “Is Good…Great?” Debate,
King Middle School, Berkeley, May 24, 2007
H/T Blazing Cat Fur, who has the video and a link to the transcript
Update: From TigerHawk
Slate organizes the best work of Christopher Hitchens in that publication, by topic. Lots of stuff there. Such as, for example, this spectacular and sanguinary flaying of Jimmy Carter.
