No need to link, it's well known that Christopher Hitchens is perceived as having become a rightwing toady of sorts having been a semi-famous Marxist-type of some sort.
But back then, regardless of his position on the political spectrum, his beat was freedom, anti-oppression, not in any partisan way but in a rather principled way. (See his old columns at The Nation.)
Then, to some degree unknown to me, 9/11 "changed everything" and he became, at the least, an enabler of Our Leaders. Given that Al-Qaeda is bad and Islamofascism is bad (query whether worse than Christofascism), contrary to Hitchens, it does not follow from that that the Iraq debacle is in any way whatsoever a good thing.
Given all that, it is funny in a sardonic way that Hitchen reverts to the "old" Hitchens for some modern day bashing of the admittedly despicable, despiseable, disgusting Henry Kissinger.
On the other hand, for an example of the intellectual, partisan, GOP-toadying wreck he has become, see the 16 October Wall Street Journal.
Whatever, the story is, Hitch opines, the GOP House leadership did nothing wrong.
Hitch truly bends so far over backwards that he ends up talking with his head up his ass -- a job well done for the party. Note that I guess 9/11 did change everything for him; he wasn't a partisan toady before 9/11.
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