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By way of introducing this debate, here is an example of how Hitchens later characterized Galloway:"Mr. Galloway is a thug and a liar and a demagogue and a man who has managed the odd feat of being able to be both a pimp for, and a prostitute of, Saddam Hussein."So, yeah, they don't agree on much. The great feat of this debate, to my mind, is that Galloway more than holds his own. It's one of the few times I've seen Hitchens on his heels, ceding ground (inadvertently or not), reduced to shouting down the opponent. That says something. Anyway, the link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2JVKeOExEE
Nice. I hadn't seen them on Bill Maher's show. Gotta look up the whole episode when I have more time to watch it.By the way, I agree with you on Hitchens not carrying the day on that particular foreign policy issue. I do like his point about the barbary pirates, though. I've used the same one, less artfully, when someone argues we could placate muslims by leaving the muslim world. Their world view has not changed much in the intervening centuries. I'm in favor of retracting US bases on foreign land but we can't pretend that will change their beliefs. Unfortunately, the dictates of the koran, sunnah, and haddith are what they are.
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