<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV> <P>Could we return to the original question which started this thread. I'm a big fan of Hitchen's pre-Sept. 11th writing and was a bit taken aback by the quotation from his working indicating that he believes the conquest and destruction of the Native American population was a great boon to humanity. Does he really believe this? If so, is he not a moral idiot? Does Peter or anyone else know about the 1992 column that was quoted in the original posting. </P></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <a href='http://go.msn.com/bql/hmtag_itl_EN.asp'>http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></html>