>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?
Good point. And Hitch is trusting the task of slum clearance to the very guys who built the slums in the first place - the U.S. national security establishment. I asked him about this, and all he could do was go on about how Buchanan was against the war too.
Doug