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...finally responded angrily on two news shows last month when interviewers questioned him about Hitchens’ criticisms. On “The News with Brian Williams,” Kissinger described Hitchens as “a man who attacked Mother Teresa, Jackie Kennedy, [and] has said the Holocaust never existed...
Hitchens responded that the “Holocaust denier” label was libelous and says he was considering legal action against the statesman...
...anyone who actually believes that new embryos are just as human as you or me, this last point is like saying, "Well, the Holocaust is going on anyway, so we might as well turn a few dead Jews into lampshades." Accommodating to evil is evil. But if this is your line, you had better really, really believe that discarding embryos is just like gassing Jews. That's because if you get your way, then real, fully formed people will suffer and die for your abstract point of principle. In fact, real people will suffer and die as a result...
...basing social policy on the assumption that a few embryonic cells equal a human being? If so, restricting research on discarded embryos is an odd place to start. Why not restrict fertility clinics, which routinely produce more embryos than they need and destroy the surplus? To pursue the gruesome Holocaust analogy, it's like outlawing the lampshades while ignoring the gas chambers. And yet President Bush is not searching for compromise on the issue of fertility clinics because there is no such issue. The Roman Catholic Church and others are publicly opposed to high-tech fertilization techniques, but they...
...short of total world domination. Every American, in or out of the service, was keenly aware of this. To say the U.S. fighting forces were exhibiting only "mindless personal courage" because they were not aware of the plight of the Jews is an insult. If there had been no Holocaust, and the Allies had "only" vanquished the Third Reich, would the war have been any less "good"? CHRISTIAN WIESSNER Glen Rock...