Well, yes, it may be that it will work this time. Perhaps the Angels of Peace and Love will float down onto the arid plains and jagged mountains of ancient Persia, borne on the wings of a B2 bomber.
Are we ruled by some sort of death cult? In just one week, our Parliament has voted for the even more ruthless destruction of unborn babies, and to begin the abortion of the inconvenient old and ill.
Everywhere in the media and politics people are adopting stern expressions and pious voices about the various wars we now confront. But their moralising just does not make sense.
Should I have bothered to go to Israel so many times, or to the West Bank or to Iraq or Gaza or Jordan or Egypt? Should I have tried so hard to get into Iran, when they so very plainly did not want m…
If the British Government were a person, it would long ago have been sectioned and placed in a locked ward because of its severe delusions of grandeur.
Our police chiefs have now quite obviously grown too big for their helmets. Their heads have got too swollen, while their feet have gone soft from lack of contact with the pavement.
This week it is legal to shoplift and evade travel fares. It can't be long before GBH joins the list. The police, we're told, have more important things to do. Now we know what these are.
Hitchens compared the light policing of cannabis in the West to countries like South Korea, Japan, and China, making the point that Asia sees very few of these rampage-style killings.