On Being Spit Upon — Literally — by Christopher Hitchens
Submitted on December 17, 2011
By Dave Zirin - December 16, 2011
Christopher Hitchens was a man of prodigious gifts, but in the end, he used those gifts to promote wars that produced a killing field in the Middle East. That, tragically, is his lasting legacy to the world, and no amount of flowery obituaries can change this stubborn fact.


