Hitchens on the Deeper Implications of Hillary's Bosnia Lies

Having gone to Sarajevo himself in 1992, Christopher Hitchens is not amused by Hillary Clinton's "recollections" of her 1996 trip to Tuzla. Particularly galling to Hitchens is that Hillary's claim to "bravery" during her Bosnia trip references a point in time after which over 250,000 Bosnian Muslims had been slaughtered by Serbian forces while Hillary was focusing on her health-care initiative.

"Yet Sen. Clinton, given repeated chances to modify her absurd claim to have operated under fire while in the company of her then-16-year-old daughter and a USO entertainment troupe, kept up a stone-faced and self-loving insistence that, yes, she had exposed herself to sniper fire in the cause of gaining moral credit and, perhaps to be banked for the future, national-security "experience." This must mean either a) that she lies without conscience or reflection; or b) that she is subject to fantasies of an illusory past; or c) both of the above."

Her claims to be an authority on national security and foreign policy are just as baseless as Barrack Obama's claims from having lived overseas as a child.