Hitch

[Jeet Heer]

Hi Doug, I just interviewed Hitchens on Saturday for an article for the
National Post. One of the things we started talking about, before he had to
go off and do a lecture, was Orwell's difficult balancing act of opposing
British imperialism while also opposing foreign enemies such as the Soviet
Union and Nazi Germany. I asked Hitchens if it were possible to be opposed
to both resurgant anglo-american imperialism and Islamic theocrats. CH
didn't really have a chance to respond but he did say 2 intriguing things:
1) he wasn't sure whether the term "imperialism" accurately described what
the US/UK were up to and 2) something to the effect that "we have to ask
what a non-imperial occupation of Iraq would be like." So I think this would
be a good jumping off point -- is a non-imperial occupation even imaginable?
Jeet
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:34 AM
Subject: Hitch


> Ok, looks like I've booked Hitchens for the radio this Thursday, 5
> PM. Any thoughts on what I should ask him? Questions on Orwell would
> be nice, as well as the obvious.
>
> Doug