| | Hitchens displayed provocative rhetoric and bloodlust towards radical Islamacists.<ref>''UnHitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens'' | | Hitchens displayed provocative rhetoric and bloodlust towards radical Islamacists.<ref>''UnHitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens'' |
| | By Richard Seymour, Publisher: Verso; 1 edition (January 16, 2013), page 92</ref> At the opening of the [[David Horowitz]] Freedom Center, Hitchens said of radical Islamacists, "It is a pleasure and a duty to kill these people".<ref>''UnHitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens'' | | By Richard Seymour, Publisher: Verso; 1 edition (January 16, 2013), page 92</ref> At the opening of the [[David Horowitz]] Freedom Center, Hitchens said of radical Islamacists, "It is a pleasure and a duty to kill these people".<ref>''UnHitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens'' |
| − | By Richard Seymour, Publisher: Verso; 1 edition (January 16, 2013), page 92</ref> Hitchens said of [[Iran]], "As for that benighted country, I wouldn't shed a tear if it was wiped off the face of this earth”.<ref>''UnHitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens'' By Richard Seymour, Publisher: Verso; 1 edition (January 16, 2013), page 92</ref> | + | By Richard Seymour, Publisher: Verso; 1 edition (January 16, 2013), page 92</ref> Hitchens said of Islamic [[Iran]], which engages in state-sponsored terrorism, "As for that benighted country, I wouldn't shed a tear if it was wiped off the face of this earth”.<ref>''UnHitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens'' By Richard Seymour, Publisher: Verso; 1 edition (January 16, 2013), page 92</ref> |
| | He was a harsh critic of [[Ronald Reagan]], and considered [[Henry Kissinger]] a [[war criminal]]. | | He was a harsh critic of [[Ronald Reagan]], and considered [[Henry Kissinger]] a [[war criminal]]. |