I did not mean to suggest that Hitchens was harkening after the multilaterlism under Clinton, as we know he is now of the 'War Party', however, he was, during the war in/on Yugoslavia an intellectual compatriot of Sontag & Co.
Joe W.
>From: "Joseph Wanzala" <jwanzala at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Suppose they'll let her back in the country?
>Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:26:57 -0700
>
>
>“It's really the end of the republic and the beginning of the empire,”
>(Sontag) said, likening former president Bill Clinton to Julius Caesar and
>Bush to Augustus.
>
>- It is true that neo-cons, neo-liberals and liberals alike are now calling
>for an open acknowledgement of the 'burden' of Empire, but surely Sontag is
>off by several decades by declaring that the advent of Bush 43 is the
>'birth' of the United States as an Empire. Certainly people in Sontag's
>circles, including her son David Reiff and his sometime sidekick Chris
>Hitchens wax nostaligic about Clinton's 'multilateral' approach, but
>Clinton was no less an avatar of Empire than either Bush, Reagan, Carter or
>any other US president since perhaps Theodore Roosevelt.
>
>Joe W.
>
>
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>>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>>Subject: [lbo-talk] Suppose they'll let her back in the country?
>>Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:30:05 -0600
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