Christopher Hitchens - "Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy"

Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie

Christopher Hitchens wrote in 2001 in The Nation magazine, 'Against Rationalization', a counter to Chomsky and the Left, who, in response to 9/11, suggested that the attacks against America were the causal effect of American action in the Middle East. He said:

"I know already that the people of Palestine and Iraq are victims of a depraved and callous Western statecraft."

For Christopher Hitchens, islamic grievance long pre-dates the Blair-Bush intervention. He said:

Syria in a sentence

Andrew Sullivan captures Syria in a sentence: 

"In every crisis, the US will be excoriated if it does nothing and excoriated more for doing something" 

Via Andrew Sullivan in the Sunday Times (15.ix.13), 'Bobbing Obama leaves Putin holding the Syrian powder keg.'