Christopher Hitchens Quotes
Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.
Hitchens, Christopher. The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Verso, 2001.
The term immediately grew very popular in Germany and soon made its way to the English-speaking countries as “realpolitic”.
In 1938 beginning his policy of appeasement of the axis powers, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940, agreed to negotiate with Benito Mussolini, 1883-1945. Four days before this letter, Cranborne, along with his Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, 1897-1977, resigned in protest.
For a leader of a hostile foreign power, this is as complementary a description as there is.
The “bozos” beat him and won the Presidency. And then conducted a very successful foreign policy for 8 years.
Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English-American intellectual, polemicist, and socio-political critic, who expressed himself as an author, orator, essayist and columnist. He wrote, co-wrote, edited or co-edited over 30 books, including five of essays on culture, politics and literature. Having contributed to several publications, he is broadly regarded as one of the most influential atheists of all time.
