Almost everything Hitchens was angry about he was right to be angry about. Can't win them all, Iraq war snaffoo was a bit hit-or-miss with his switch-up, but everything else he was pretty much on the rationally righteous side.
There really aren't enough angry people whose anger comes from moral/rational/righteous concerns these days. He actually covers a lot of the criticism UB and others have said of him and other "angry young men" in Letters to a Young Contrarian -- snippets:
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It is too much to expect to live in an age that is propitious for dissent. And most people, most of the time, prefer to seek approval or security. None the less, there are in all periods people who feel themselves in some fashion to be apart. And it is not too much to say that humanity is very much in debt to such people, whether it chooses to acknowledge the debt or not. (Don't expect to be thanked, by the way. The life of an oppositionist is supposed to be difficult.)
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There are times when one wants to hold society's feet to the fire, and to force a confrontation, and to avoid the blandishments of those who always call upon everyone to "lighten up" and change the subject.
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