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    <title>Slate Magazine - Fighting Words</title>
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    <description>A wartime lexicon.</description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:37:33 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The "war on terrorism" didn't cause the Fort Hood shootings.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  It's both amusing and educational to observe a consensus when it suddenly starts to give way at all points without yielding an inch. A couple of weeks ago, the consoling view was that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a man more to be pitied than feared, a full-blown officer in the U.S. armed forces who was too shaken up by the stories of returned veterans to be able to function properly, and a physician too stressed-out to bear in mind that there was such a thing as a Hippocratic oath. Why, even the FBI had interpreted his e-mails to Anwar al-Awlaki as quite "consistent with research being conducted by Maj. Hasan in his position as a psychiatrist at the Walter Reed Medical Center."<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2236442/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>fighting words</category>
  <author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:37:33 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Seven salient facts about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The admonition not to rush to judgment or jump to conclusions might sound fair and prudent enough, perhaps even statesmanlike when uttered by the president, as long it's borne in mind that such advice is itself a judgment that is more than halfway to a conclusion. What it plainly implies in the present case is that the actions of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan should not be assumed in any meaningful way to be related to his Muslim faith.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2235760/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>fighting words</category>
  <author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:46:20 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The lessons of 1989.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Lenin once defined a revolutionary situation as one that occurred when the rulers could not go on in the traditional way and the ruled did not wish to continue in that old way. Engels was more metaphorical, saying that revolution was the midwife that delivered a new life out of an older body. Both images come to mind in remembering the revolutions of 1989, which humbled a ruling system that believed itself to be based on the historical wisdom of Lenin and, indeed, of Engels.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2234782/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>fighting words</category>
  <author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 06:59:24 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The United Nations' shameful complicity in this year's corrupt Afghan elections.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  If the time ever does come when we look back on our intervention in Afghanistan as a humiliating debacle, this past weekend may well be identified as one of the moments when the calamity became irreversible.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2234333/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=8629" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=8629" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
  <category>fighting words</category>
  <author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:10:27 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>What I've learned from debating religious people around the world.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  This week sees the opening on various cinema marquees of the film Collision: a buddy-and-road movie featuring last year's debates between Pastor Douglas Wilson, who is a senior fellow at New St. Andrew's College, and your humble servant. (If I may be forgiven, it's also available on DVD, and you can buy our little book of exchanges, Is Christianity Good for the World?)<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2233586/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>fighting words</category>
  <author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:21:51 EST</pubDate>
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