Henry’s considered view was: “It seems that the wise executive power that rules life has thought it best to drill man in these three conditions, and none may escape all three.” I haven’t the smallest belief in any supreme executive power, let alone in a wise one (I don’t believe in Her, in other words) but it would be idle to deny the element of perspicacity here.

Henry, in whose eponymous yet pseudonymous Irving Place tavern I so pleasurably wasted some of my early evenings in New York, once wrote a short story entitled “The Complete Life of John Hopkins,” in which a guileless citizen manages to undergo the whole trinity of these phenomena while stepping out of his cramped city apartment in search of a five-cent cigar. INTRODUCTION An antique saying has it that a man’s life is incomplete unless or until he has tasted love, poverty, and war. WAR BEFORE SEPTEMBER THE STRUGGLE OF THE KURDS UNFAIRENHEIT 9/11: THE LIES OF MICHAEL MOORE Torres and Paul Paddock Printed in the United States of America Distributed by Publishers Group West Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available ISBN 1-56025-580-3 987654321 Book design by Maria E. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast.

245 West 17th St., 11th Floor New York, NY 10011Ĭollection copyright © 2004 by Christopher Hitchens All essays used by permission of the author.Īll rights reserved. LOVE, POVERTY, AND WAR JOURNEYS AND ESSAYS Published by Nation Books An Imprint of Avalon Publishing Group Inc. Also by Christopher Hitchens BLOOD, CLASS AND EMPIRE: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship A LONG SHORT WAR: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq WHY ORWELL MATTERS LEFT HOOKS, RIGHT CROSSES: A Decade of Political Writing (edited with Christopher Caldwell) LETTERS TO A YOUNG CONTRARIAN THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER BLAMING THE VICTIMS: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (edited with Edward Said) UNACKNOWLEDGED LEGISLATION: Writers in the Public Sphere NO ONE LEFT TO LIE TO: The Values of the Worst Family THE ELGIN MARBLES: Should they be returned to Greece? HOSTAGE TO HISTORY: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger THE MISSIONARY POSITION: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice WHEN THE BORDERS BLEED: The Struggle of the Kurds (with Ed Kashi) INTERNATIONAL TERRITORY: the United Nations, 1945–95 (with Adam Bartos) THE MONARCHY: A Critique of Britain’s Favorite Fetish FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT: Essays & Minority Reports PREPARED FOR THE WORST: Selected Essays and Minority Reports JAMES CALLAGHAN: The Road to Number Ten (with Peter Kellner) KARL MARX AND THE PARIS COMMUNE

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