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Hitchens: Cynicism by the Book

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Dark_Falcon4/04/2011 7:37:52 pm PDT

re: #278 researchok

SSDD

He’s a hypocrite. Not news.

He’s just a part of the herd.

Quite Concur. Even in times of grave emergency, nepotism will rear its head. During WWI, Secretary of State for War Horatio Kitchener appointed his older brother Henry (who’d been a dud of an officer retired at Colonel to an important inspection and analysis post as a Major General. Nevermind that more qualified men were available, someone in the family needs a job. It’s pretty basic human nature.