Christopher Hitchens - Iran

Christopher Hitchens shares his unique insights on Iran and the Arab world. www.LibertyPen.com

[@mmd_ra]

We love Christopher in iran

[@TheGrapplingMonkey]

I love how hitchens jsut sits there and looks like he has a bad hangover, than he is asked a questen and he gives brilliant answers and inside knowlege with his hangover face. This guy right there is the ultimate pwnage machine. Don´t believe me, watch some other videos in which he is arguing with people.

[@MrDarknessandDeath]

Some months ago I had a conversation with an Iranian American (who'd been to iran on a few occasions) about this. He said that, while the aforementioned young group didn't share the sentiments of the regime, they only wanted friendship with the US as some kind of trade partnership or something.

[@nathanreddy3199]

What would he think about Iran, Gaza and Israel now.

[@Gunnerss09]

When was this interview?

[@kentamitchell]

EC, Thank you. Couldn't have said it any better myself.

[@chachieb]

anyone know what year this interview took place?

[@wolfgangvs]

What is the intro music from?

[@spartacandream]

I don't think that history will be kinder to Bush, but for the wrong reasons. When it came to foreign policy, he was as good as one can expect him to be, no one will ever have a perfect foreign policy. Though when it comes to the Patriot Act and crap like it, that's where Bush needs to be criticised, and yet history isn't tough enough on him for it,.

[@boobiecats]

HITCH-COCKED: A Conversation with Christopher Hitchens Filmed on March 25, 2005

[@fzqlcs]

@Seigu007 I am an Objectivist. That requires that I am also an atheist. That makes me a threat to snake worshipers, fundamentalist Muslims or Christians and very any other believer that pretends to know the unknowable.

[@spartacandream]

@fzqlcs That is what I like about Hitchens, he's able to think clearly and thoroughly.

[@MrDarknessandDeath]

"obesity related AIDS death." Did I miss a memo?!

[@Dougca1985]

What were the last names that Christopher metnions? Gerhard Schroder and who else?

[@Dougca1985]

@TriggerImage Thank you!

[@Hannibal953able]

Great man!!! Your pragmatism will live on. By the way is he drunk?

[@trakkaton]

Where are the "unique insights"?

[@rememberme12356]

World is more fucked up than he predicted but i still miss him....

[@hazeshi6779]

He foresaw much of the current collapse.

[@the.r32]

@@hazeshi6779yep

[@addounsamiyoucef1999]

@@hazeshi6779 he didnt he was a moron with an accent

[@gulbirk]

intervening is a bad option husky720 because out intentions arent any better then their intentions.

[@RiquinhoNojento]

@husky720 And I hate when people expect different results when they do exactly the same things.

[@fzqlcs]

@vrghiks The mind is a terrible thing to waste. Those who put faith (belief in that for which there is no evidence) above reason (that for which there is evidence) commit their lives to doing just that. The pious may revel in their ignorance, but, in reality, they die no wiser than they began. Hitchens, like Ayn Rand, is a fine example for his fellow man.

[@ShotTower1]

I would argue radical anything is nearly always about self sacrifice. Radical christians also have the concept of giving up your life for the religion. You're right about Iran though, if they get a nuke then there's a worrying chance they would use it, or threaten everyone around them to get their way. The problem is Iran needs nuclear energy, we don't have a right to deny them that. How do you give a country nuclear energy without the danger of them developing weapons?

[@alisalehi7626]

This interview aged like milk

[@writersblock26]

@husky720 Me, too.

[@fzqlcs]

@Seigu007 What escapes you is the difference between a rational miscalculation and an irrational belief system.

[@Zhippy]

@Nadnerb765 I don't follow, I am not entirely sure if I can agree that he is a laughing stock, but where did you get the idea that he views himself as a "risk commander"? I hardly think he views the war going on as a strategic board game. And even if he did, he would not be much different from most other military high ranking officers in the world, they HAVE to view their soldiers as a resource and not human beings, otherwise, the forces would not be sent out to do anything at all.

[@berrylict]

Love Hitch, but none of these predictions materialized. The materialization may tarry :)

[@npanther22]

Chris just keeps on talking and talking. 'Baby Boomer.'

[@user-fq7wr2vt5c]

wait 7 years ago baby boomer was a thing?

[@omgitsfed]

You forget to take into account that these people believe in an afterlife. Hitchens is right in the head, you just don't have a very acute/critical mind.

[@bobby_bretwalda]

hehe epic intro

[@samsa419]

You allow reputable nuclear inspectors on the ground, with all access to suspect sites & making regulation checks, but the Iranian theocratic regime has made nonsense of the U.N non-prolitharation treaty by not allowing any U.N inspectors in.

[@ykkrasaoz9748]

Absent trump, the prediction would've been bang on

[@bigjstokes]

secular Iranians would be washed up by a wave of nationalism in Iran if the west attacked militarily. Also, Hitchens doesn't represent England, he is a US citizen.

[@MrDarknessandDeath]

this is fucking bizarre.

[@duncefunce1513]

Wrong about the Palestinian state, what? I think this may have been before Hamas took control of Gaza, actually. Things might have seemed rosier

[@addounsamiyoucef1999]

this was also before the likud started an apartheid state

[@scottspencer6899]

Wow christopher hitchens was so wrong on his predictions for the middle east. There is no Palestine state and all his other predictions were awfully wrong

[@111256able]

Iran has not bothered her neighboring nations for the past 900 years.So,on papers Iranians(Persians) is a peaceful nation and can be trusted with Nuclear weapon.Unlike both Unites States and Israel who constantly were active involving in wars all over the place for the past 5o years,Iran had always been defensive in their approach towards others(Iran-Iraq war)Iran -Iraq war had revealed that Iran is more powerful than what most people anticipated.She produces her own weapons .

[@RiquinhoNojento]

Frankly? Iran should have nukes to protect themselves. Their neighbors were recently attacked by the invading forces of NATO, which btw has nukes.

[@vrghiks]

The ultimate question: Are you saved by the blood of the crucified one?

[@Pouyan87]

hahaha

[@fzqlcs]

@Seigu007 As an objective observer of reality, I have enough information to determine that your opinion is of no value. End of story.

[@npanther22]

Was Christopher Hitchens supporting George Bush or not? You can't be a Bush supporter and be pro-liberty, thats contradicting.

[@fzqlcs]

you would be right if talking about rational leaders. but, religious fanatics don't care if they "lose." That is what self-sacrifice is. That is what radical Islam is. It is an ideology of suicide. Hitchens exhibits a degree of sophistication and understanding seldom seen in discussions of this type.

[@astroblaster56]

He never supported him

[@trakkaton]

"open contempt for international law" I thought he wants to talk about Iran, but obviously he's talking about Israel.

[@vrghiks]

Show me a man that doesn't believe God and I'll show you a man out of his mind. When Jesus touches anyone,it will put them into their right mind. Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.Luke 8:35

[@CuCulainn1]

rest in nothingness Sir !

[@trakkaton]

So you can't respond to specific facts. So you just have some unspecific, abstract opinions based on - nothing. So you babble about definitions without defining anything. Who cares?

[@NiceGuyCody]

"Iran has not bothered her neighboring nations for the past 900 years." A shameless lie.

[@XtreemMetalManRedToTheBone]

NiceGuyCody Iran tried to kill Tariq Aziz in 1980.

[@billyb6001]

Wow. He was wrong.

[@new_criticiser]

Why