Doug, If I am not mistaken, you (or someone) posted an email from Hitchen's a few months ago saying that he was "getting in touch with [his] libertarian side"...
Guess he got tired of that and is now getting in touch with his "cold-war liberal side".
Thomas
===== <<The concept of Empire is presented as a global concert
under the direction of a single conductor, a unitary power
that maintains the social peace and produces its ethical
truths. And in order to achieve these ends,the single
power is given the necessary force to conduct, when
necessary, "just wars" at the borders against
the barbarians and internally against the rebellious>> Hardt & Negri "Empire"
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