On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Christopher Hitchens was quoted as saying:
> These "root causes" [of 9-11] lay in the political slum that the United
> States has been running in the region, and in the rotten nexus of
> client-states from Riyadh to Islamabad. Such causes cannot be publicly
> admitted, nor can they be addressed all at once. But a slum-clearance
> program is beginning to form in the political mind.
Boy is that a self-destroying metaphor. Remember the great successes of original slum clearance programs? And especially how successful they were at removing the root causes of crime?
Michael