Anti-Imperialism 101 Re: Hitchens quits Nation

[Bradford DeLong]

>There's no relativism about democracy from me. I regard it as the 
>besty form of government, and I hope everybody chooses it. I just 
>don't think that having it gives you the right in any sense of the 
>term to impose it on others--supposedly.
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>jks

Instead, whatever bunch of thugs has the guns has the right to 
continue to rule. Seems to me that there is a very crabbed and silly 
notion of "right" here...

Brad DeLong