Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Erotic Intellectual

"Erotic Intellectual
Melik Kaylan, 04.28.09, 12:01 AM EDT
Christopher Hitchens turns us on--even when he's wrong.

... In the category of just wrongheaded, I would cite his relentlessly hostile posture toward Turkey. Most recently on April 20, in Slate, he bashes away again at Turkey. You'd hope that Hitch would by instinct unsheathe his sword to fend off all insults directed at the world's oldest Muslim democracy with a Western secular constitution. But no, from the earliest time, indeed from the time of his first marriage to a Greek Cypriot heiress, he has managed to find nothing but execrable flaws in Turkey's conduct."

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