Christopher Hitchens on America's role in the World (2005)
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- "Christopher Eric Hitchens (April 13, 1949 -- December 15, 2011) was an English-born American author, journalist and literary critic. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens was also a political observer, whose best-selling books - the most famous being god Is Not Great - made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was also a media fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Hitchens was a polemicist and intellectual. While he was once identified with the Anglo-American radical political left, near the end of his life he embraced some arguably right-wing causes, most notably the Iraq War. Formerly a Trotskyist and a fixture in the left wing publications of both the United Kingdom and United States, Hitchens departed from the grassroots of the political left in 1989 after what he called the "tepid reaction" of the European left following Ayatollah Khomeini's issue of a fatwa calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie, but he stated on the Charlie Rose show aired August 2007 that he remained a "Democratic Socialist."
The September 11, 2001 attacks strengthened his embrace of an interventionist foreign policy, and his vociferous criticism of what he called "fascism with an Islamic face." He is known for his ardent admiration of George Orwell, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, and for his excoriating critiques of Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger and Bill Clinton.
Hitchens was an anti-theist, and he described himself as a believer in the Enlightenment values of secularism, humanism, and reason.
I keep telling myself that there is nothing new under the sun, that there is not a stash of Hitchens videos waiting to be discovered… And then I find a couple now. Where are they coming from? Thank you, Great Benefactor!
It's incredible that half these callers were able to dial the correct number.
They had to dial a number of times.
Well done for the upload. Much appreciated!!
The call-in part of this show, that happened at 5:30am:est, & 2:30:am:pt aren’t always produce those who are mentally stable. I’ve watched many of these C-Span call-in programs featuring Christopher Hitchens, & this was the weirdest.
I like listening to these call ins with Hitchens but it's hard and often cringeworthy to listen to the callers. You'd think people would be prepared before calling a national show. They get on the air and it's "uhmm, uh.... ummm ....". Get it together for goodness sake.
+Bundy how do you know I was referring to you?
I hear you, if you can't string a fucking sentence together don't pick up the phone.
How would you sound at 5am? Or 2am if you live in Seattle?
C-SPAN is known for these unique calls. I think they stem from similarly unique personalities which I would justify to at least two reasons. (1) To be a dedicated viewer of C-SPAN means to care about the political machinery quite deeply. Many unstable individuals can be described as such, notably those prey to paranoia. This type of caller would struggle with cohesively expressing himself. (2) C-SPAN may appear to be an outlet for expressing political or otherwise social concerns to these callers. The callers may rarely even watch C-SPAN but know it as such an outlet and therefore call in when their concerns are boiling over. This type of caller would speak in either a stream-of-consciousness or otherwise without structure as they are more so going through a masturbatory outburst.
I could never call in c-span without at least one example of a point I have. What is wrong with people?
I didn't get up I stayed up LOL
Guy at 23:00 did the ol' wake'n'bake haha.
+Adam Service Sounds like Brett Keane, lol.
"Doesn't sound as if he does" LOLLL
23:29 hahahahahahahaha
He looks so hungover, wish I was with him the night before
I wasn't. He stayed up all night since this was broadcasted live at 5 am.
How could Christopher Hitchens be called right-wing? Has the American left really been so stupid?
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One can only imagine his thoughts on Biden's disastrous failure in Afghanistan. And his thoughts on Biden. Probably be disgusted with both.
How convenient that you’re forgetting that Trump set up the withdrawal date. Maybe you don’t know that.
@@cavaliermama56 your point is? Biden fucked up the withdrawal, plain and simple. His own administration has conceded this.
18:12
I find it totally suspect
That everytime the questioning of Jewish involvement
is brought up
This bellend just cuts the caller off
Seen it on more that one occasion
He's a walking contradiction. An interesting Brit.
With their history of everything from literature to comedy, only an illiterate, uncultured mong would make that comment.
I'm 6 years late but aren't all of us in a way walking contradictions. No one can have an unchanging set of ideals.
Not really. He was a Marxist and never really stopped being one deep down despite his supposed deconversion.
Contradiction? Or gone through a metamorphic stage and recognizes and even puts the context behind his previous thoughts and motives - sounds a lot more just than these snakes who can hide plainly with ease
Hitch was brilliant before 2001. What a waste of potential bc of his booze.
Lost a LOT of respect for Hitchens in this video. Yes, Gorbachev deserves a lot of credit for letting the Eastern European client states of theirs leave. BUT none of it ever would have happened without the military and MORAL pressure Reagan fearlessly put on the Soviets. If Carter was still president, that wall would still be intact whether Hitchens wants to admit he was totally and unequivocally wrong or not...SHAME ON CHRISTOPHER! He was too small of a man to admit he was contemporaneously wrong on this issue...
You're a fucking clown
Reagan had as much “moral” pressure on the Soviets as Bono did for ending hunger in Africa. Gorbachev had a long term plan and executed it transparently and fully almost to a schedule . Gorbachev believed in the Russian People more than he did the Communist party. The very deserved deep set black eye of all of Stalinism and Leninism were on display with the abysmal regard for its people wrt to Chernobyl and Afghanistan clinging to Russian dogma. US Military expediency didn’t change anything. Reagan knew it was the right time to try to take credit for something 20+ years in incubation. US/Russian Historians saw Glastnost and Perestroika as inevitable. That Reaganism was seen as putting any pressure is laughable.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
He's a walking contradiction. An interesting Brit.
With their history of everything from literature to comedy, only an illiterate, uncultured mong would make that comment
Makes even less sense the second time