Hitchens responds to critics

[Forstater, Mathew]

if "crowded VA neighborhood" were replaced with "densely populated VA
county" or suburb, though, then it would be ok, right? I once made a
wrong turn or got off the wrong exit going to visit my brother and
family in Arlington or Alexandria and suddenly found myself in the
Pentagon parking lot. If his point is that it is not a high security
military base, then I think that he is right, and that could have been
the idea of some outside the U.S.?

-----Original Message-----
From: Max Sawicky [mailto:sawicky at bellatlantic.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:13 AM
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Subject: RE: Hitchens responds to critics

A bit of Hitch weirdness:

"The Pentagon, for all its symbolism, is actually more the civil-service
bit
of the American 'war-machine,' and is set in a crowded Virginia
neighborhood. . . .

One would think that across the street from the P
there are town-houses and people walking their dogs.
In fact the P is surrounded by parking lots, fields,
and freeways.  It is no more in a "crowded Virginia
neighborhood" than some huge shopping mall.

mbs