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66. I think Hitchens had an immediate emotional response

to his experience, which was reflected in the Vanity Fair article. Apparently, though, he had second thoughts, as this quote from the Guardian illustrates:

Still, Hitchens cannot escape the grip of American exceptionalism that has so permeated his work since 9/11. "Any call to indict the United States for torture is … a lame and diseased attempt to arrive at a moral equivalence between those who defend civilization and those who exploit its freedoms to hollow it out, and ultimately to bring it down," he huffs.

For Hitchens, in America's pitched battle with "tormentors and murderers", the ends justify the means

www.guardian.co.uh.commentisfree/2008/jul/03/usa.civilliberties

By the way, I don't hate Hitchens. Hate requires a high level of emotion, commmitment and investment in time and effort that I've never seen any reason to accord him. In fact, I admire his courage in allowing himself to be waterboarded and in the way he faced his death from a terrible disease. But he was an unabasahed apologist for the Bush administration and its resource wars in Western Asia, wars which have by now taken hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of innocent lives. That I do not find admirable, in Hitchens or anyone else. And yes, I do believe his judgement may have been impaired in this as in other issues.