A wartime lexicon.

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• Our Short National Nightmare How President Ford managed to go soft on Iraqi Baathists, Indonesian fascists, Soviet Communists, and the shah … in just two years.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 29, 2006
  
• Vertigo In Iraq, the distance between hope and despair can be measured in minutes.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 27, 2006
  
• The Real Sunni Triangle There are only three options in Iraq.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 18, 2006
  
• Augusto Pinochet, 1915-2006 Farewell to the perpetrator of one of the most shocking crimes of the 20th century.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 11, 2006
  
• Eschew the Taboo The pernicious effects of banning words.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 4, 2006
  
• From Beirut to Baghdad The ghastly predictability of nihilist violence.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 27, 2006
  
• Look Who's Cutting and Running Now James Baker is the last guy we should listen to about Iraq.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 20, 2006
  
• Kazakh Like Me Borat reveals the painful politeness of American society.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 13, 2006
  
• Don't Hang Saddam Why the dictator shouldn't get the death penalty.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 6, 2006
  
• Rushing for the Exit If we leave Iraq, what happens to the supporters of democracy?
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 30, 2006
  
• How Uninviting Tony Judt's persecution complex.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 23, 2006
  
• The Lancet's Slant Epidemiology meets moral idiocy.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 16, 2006
  
• The Return of Henry Kissinger Will we never be free of the malign effect of this little gargoyle?
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 6, 2006
  
• GI Jesus The real problem with military chaplains.
  Christopher Hitchens Oct. 2, 2006
  
• Playing It Safe The fatuous politics of compromise.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 25, 2006
  
• Papal Bull Joseph Ratzinger's latest offense.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 18, 2006
  
• Fear Factor How did we survive Ari Fleischer's reign of terror?
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 11, 2006
  
• Hello, Zahawie, My Old Friend I've come to talk with you again.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 5, 2006
  
• Plame Out The ridiculous end to the scandal that distracted Washington.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 29, 2006
  
• Snake in the Grass The pompous, hypocritical hucksterism of Günter Grass.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 22, 2006
  
• Terrorists Ain't What They Used To Be Reflections on the London bomb plot.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 15, 2006
  
• The Eighteenth Brumaire of the Castro Dynasty Cuba's military coup marks the end of the revolutionary era.
  Christopher Hitchens Aug. 7, 2006
  
• Mel Gibson's Meltdown He is sick to his empty core with Jew-hatred.
  Christopher Hitchens July 31, 2006
  
• Case Closed The truth about the Iraqi-Niger "yellowcake" nexus.
  Christopher Hitchens July 25, 2006
  
• The End of the Affair Novak exonerates the Bushies in the Plame case.
  Christopher Hitchens July 17, 2006
  
• Full Disclosure Bring on the press revelations.
  Christopher Hitchens July 10, 2006
  
• Cause and Effect It's time to stop blaming the good guys for problems in Iraq.
  Christopher Hitchens July 5, 2006
  
• Peace and Quiet Four projects for righteous anti-war types.
  Christopher Hitchens June 27, 2006
  
• Into the Fray Christopher Hitchens responds to a former Iraqi official's missive.
  Christopher Hitchens June 19, 2006
  
• The Jordanian Connection Why Amman helped track down Zarqawi.
  Christopher Hitchens June 12, 2006
  
• A Good Day's Work Why Zarqawi's death matters.
  Christopher Hitchens June 8, 2006
  
• The Hell of War Why Haditha isn't My Lai.
  Christopher Hitchens June 5, 2006
  
• Furious George Galloway preapproves the murder of the British prime minister.
  Christopher Hitchens May 30, 2006
  
• Dutch Courage Holland's latest insult to Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
  Christopher Hitchens May 22, 2006
  
• Don't Talk to the Mullahs Bush should respond to Ahmadinejad's letter, but he should speak directly to the Iranian people.
  Christopher Hitchens May 15, 2006
  
• The Caged Virgin Holland's shameful treatment of Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
  Christopher Hitchens May 8, 2006
  
• The Cole Report When it comes to Iran, he distorts, you decide.
  Christopher Hitchens May 2, 2006
  
• Joseph Wilson's Revenge Why no special prosecutor for the latest CIA leak case?
  Christopher Hitchens April 24, 2006
  
• Clueless Joe Wilson How did the CIA's special envoy miss Zahawie's trip to Niger?
  Christopher Hitchens April 17, 2006
  
• Judas Saves Why the lost gospel makes sense.
  Christopher Hitchens April 13, 2006
  
• Wowie Zahawie Sorry everyone, but Iraq did go uranium shopping in Niger.
  Christopher Hitchens April 10, 2006
  
• Overstating Jewish Power Mearsheimer and Walt give too much credit to the Israeli lobby.
  Christopher Hitchens March 27, 2006
  
• My Ideal War How the international community should have responded to Bush's September 2002 U.N. speech.
  Christopher Hitchens March 20, 2006
  
• No Sympathy for Slobo Let's not forget Milosevic's many crimes.
  Christopher Hitchens March 13, 2006
  
• Survey Says Let the exchange of trade and ideas with Iran begin.
  Christopher Hitchens March 6, 2006
  
• The End of Fukuyama Why his latest pronouncements miss the mark.
  Christopher Hitchens March 1, 2006
  
• Stand up for Denmark! Why are we not defending our ally?
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 21, 2006
  
• Garrison Keillor, Vulgarian In defense of Bernard-Henri Lévy.
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 13, 2006
  
• Cartoon Debate The case for mocking religion.
  Christopher Hitchens Feb. 4, 2006
  
• Suicide Voters How Hamas dooms Palestine.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 30, 2006
  
• Al-Qaida Is Losing There's desperation in Osama's voice.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 24, 2006
  
• It's Curtains for al-Qaida What happens when Iraqi "insurgents" take on Zarqawi's thugs?
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 16, 2006
  
• The Bush Bombshell Did the president propose to take out Al Jazeera?
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 9, 2006
  
• What Sharon Did The Bulldozer's long, brutal career ended better than anyone expected.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 5, 2006
  
• Are Elections Democratic? Dictatorships are hardly preferable.
  Christopher Hitchens Jan. 3, 2006