Hitchens and the Jordanian King's syndrome. It is official. Christopher Hitchens is afflicted with an acute case of the Jordanian King's syndrome. As you know, that syndrome causes you to say one thing to Western media, and another to Arab media. Hitchens was on AlJazeera today, and he was most critical of Rumsfeld, and completely censored himself, even when an Arab journalist attacked neo-conservative and conservative media, naming the Weekly Standard where Hitchens writes.