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Tuesday, March 18, 2003
The wages of gin: Hitchens can no longer even bother himself to descend the bar stool and take up the encyclopedia. As Alterperson rightly objects, Hitchens, historian, writes the following wholly without substantiation or reference to a third-party offering same:
As an experiment, let's take a Carter policy. As president, he encouraged Saddam Hussein to invade Iran in 1979 and assured him that the Khomeini regime would crumble swiftly.