The Enemy by Christopher Hitchens
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Abiding Evil

This is Hitchens’s anti-eulogy on the event of Osama bin Laden’s death. Its obvious purpose is to counter the strange cult which had emerged even among some in the intelligence community that Osama was a principled if misguided gentleman. Whether this view is still shared by any of those who remain sane is questionable. So it is a bit dated. On the other hand, can there ever be enough reminders that there is nothing easier than the construction of stupid narratives about true evil. And more than that, Pakistan, another Hitchens target, remains one of the more duplicitous countries on the planet. Given the competition, that says quite a lot.

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