freecounterpoint: A Lucid Hitchens

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

A Lucid Hitchens

5 comments:

My Frontier Thesis said...: JJ, I've been looking for a good map on the contemporary religious and ethnic demographics of the Middle East. I'll try to do a bit more searching after work, but if you know of anything, let me know, or provide the link if you could.

I'm a bit skeptical about this massive three mile long wall that they are going to build through Baghdad. Historically, walls have never worked -- from the Great Wall to the Berlin Wall to Hitler's Atlantic Wall, etc.; 4/24/2007 1:21 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: ...and by the way: good Hitchens article.; 4/24/2007 1:21 PM
Mr roT said...: The Berlin Wall worked swimmingly! If it hadn't been there, there would be only a couple freezing crickets in Lenin's Workers' Paradise.; 4/24/2007 1:50 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Patton noted that fortified or geological structures provided man with an excuse to figure out how to get around them.; 4/24/2007 3:24 PM
Mr roT said...: Right. No one got to the top of Mont Blanc till 17something. Going around...; 4/24/2007 6:15 PM

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