Hitchens responds to critics

[Nathan Newman]

Considering there is a rather massive residential complex called "Pentagon
City", Hitchens statement is hardly hyperbole  That area has become a
massive edge city of residential, hotel, and entertainment complexes
catering to the military-industrial complex types (and just to those who
found it a convenient place to live given good Metro access to downtown DC).

-- Nathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM at umkc.edu>


> 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
>
>