Anti-Imperialism 101 Re: Hitchens quits Nation

[Peter K.]

>> Iraq has never been part of the United States, unlike the US South.
>> See, tortuous support for US imperialism not only corrupts political
>> discourse here but also history and geography.
>
>As far as the South was concerned, the North had as much right to send in
>troops as the UN has to send troops into Iraq.
>
>But then what do the vagaries of nationalist history have to do with the
>justice of fighting for democracy?
>
>-- Nathan Newman

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/27/national/27MISS.html
40 Years Later, Ole Miss Asks When the Past Will Be Past
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER

OXFORD, Miss., Sept. 23 — Ole Miss is looking for witnesses to the night of Sept. 30, 1962.

It was the night James H. Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi, backed by 300 federal
marshals and 30,000 troops, as thousands of white students and outsiders ran riot over the campus.
Two men were left dead and at least 300 wounded, yet not one student was expelled, not one attacker
convicted.

Now, as it faces up to its infamy more candidly than ever, the university is embarking on a project
that is more self-examination than investigation. Scholars are beginning a yearlong documentary
project, videotaping anyone they can find who was in Oxford that night 40 years ago: Mr. Meredith,
his lawyer and the federal officials charged with enforcing the orders they won in court; the
marshals, National Guardsmen and regular Army soldiers — black and white — who were credited with
averting a massacre; the town doctor who stitched up gashes and bullet wounds while under fire
himself; the college chaplain who climbed the Confederate soldiers' monument and begged the mob to
go home.
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