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12-23-03: Historians/History
Mr. Hitchens's Revisionism of His Own History
By Sean Wilentz
Mr. Wilentz is a professor of history at Princeton University.

It is a short article that is long on theory and short on substance. The author takes a couple of paragraphs of a 13 Sep. 2001 Hitchens piece So is this war? in the Guardian where Hitchens does a lot of pondering, some may say "empty pondering", immediately after 9/11.

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  • I can understand somebody changing their opinion on something, but they should at least have the balls to be honest about it. Posted a rehashed version on my blog (with credit to you).
    • I am still not seeing it as a "revisionist" effort on the part of Hitchens.
      • Well, Hitchens second interview's "Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that." seems att odds with thigs like "Yes, it does give the impression that we are "at war", all right. But being on manoeuvres is not the same as warfare, and "preparedness" and "vigilance" are of little value if they contribute t
        • In other interviews he views "Islamofascism" (sp StB?) as everything he hates all rolled up together. In that context "Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that." fits with his prior voicing of wishing the US to do something more forceful against these regimes.

          With the coming of the latest Iraq action
          • Not saying I disagree with that last bit..."When in danger, or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout". Sounds silly, but makes (made) people fell better...this I understand.

            I have only read these two articles involving him (no excuse, really...should have dug more before spouting off), and the reason I chose the two quotes I did was to point out what I thought the headline of the article was probably using for fodder.

            The bulk of the content in there echoes (some of) my own feelings about the whole m

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