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Article: Christopher Hitchens' apology: the travels of an old trot.(Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays)(Book Review)
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- July 1, 2005
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Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays, by Christopher Hitchens; Atlantic Books, 2005, $45.
HE IS "the greatest polemicist of our age" and a "great British man of letters". That is how the British Saddamite George Galloway MP described Christopher Hitchens a couple of years ago in the London communist Morning Star. Galloway had welcomed Hitchens' support for the Vietcong in Vietnam and his demands for the arrest and prosecution of Henry Kissinger as a war criminal--among many similar causes.
Yet only the other day the same Galloway dubbed the same Hitchens "a drink-sodden ex-Trotskyist popinjay and a useful idiot".
The point is that ...