Re: [Marxism] Christopher Hitchens on the "noblest responsibilities" of imperialism

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:35:25 +0200 "Jurriaan Bendien"
<andromeda246@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Iraq-"expert" Christopher Hitchens just topped the bill for rhetoric
> in the
> LA Times. This guy's like a bad dream. He writes:
>
> "The U.S. armed forces are learning every day how to fight in
> extreme
> conditions, in post-rogue-state and post-failed-state surroundings,
> with the
> forces of medieval tyranny. Does anyone think this is not experience
> worth
> having, or that it will not be needed again? And does anyone want to
> imagine
> what Iraq would have looked like now if we had let it go on the way
> it was
> before? Too late and too little, to be sure, but nonetheless one of
> the
> noblest responsibilities we have ever shouldered."
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op-iraq24oct24,1
,37
> 22118.story
>
>

I guess after tiring of doing his Orwell impersonation, the next step
for Hitchens was to do Kipling.


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