Both candidates kowtowed to the disgraceful Kissinger. Only Obama cited him correctly. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

An article by Hitch at his more enigmatic, noting on the one hand that Obama was correct in asserting in the first debate that Kissinger has supported the idea of talks with world leaders without preconditions and McCain incorrect when he claimed that Kissinger had said the opposite. However, left unsaid but simmering perceptibly under the surface of his prose you here Mr. Hitchens growling in his English expatriate, cigarette and whiskey chaffed accent, "Why either man wants to be on the side of this war criminal is beyond me." Well, that may be true, Hitch, but he's also a brilliant thinker and practitioner of a realist foreign policy--but what matters that to Old Chris, the foreign policy idealist par excellance (that being of course the rationale that drove him from leftist provacateur to Iraq War booster). Henry Kissinger may be a war criminal, our war criminal, but he is a war criminal with panache--and panache goes a long way, you know. A lack of panache helps account for my fondest desire that Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney, Addington, et al. be snatched up by UN special forces unit on a reunion vacation to Bermuda or someplace and be sent promptly to a shared cell in the Hague--or perhaps Spandau! What's Spandau Prison being used for nowadays?

Both candidates kowtowed to the disgraceful Kissinger. Only Obama cited him correctly. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine