Hitchens on genocide

[Bradford DeLong]

>Here it is. It's scanned from a .pdf in The Nation's web archive, so 
>apologies for any uncorrected glitches.
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>Doug
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>But those who view the history of North America as a narrative of 
>genocide and slavery are, it seems to me, hopelessly stuck on this 
>reactionary position. They can think of the Western expansion of the 
>United States only in terms of plague blankets, bootleg booze and 
>dead buffalo, never in terms of the medicine chest, the wheel and 
>the railway...

A far cry indeed from the "glorification of genocide" we were led to expect...

Brad DeLong