[lbo-talk] Someone asked about Hitchens...

[Dennis Perrin]

The new VF just came in the mail, and Hitch's piece is predictably
self-righteous & more humanitarian than thou. History also repeats: "In
fact," he writes, "what is happening in today's Iraq is something more like
a social and political revolution than a military occupation. It's a
revolution from above [he must like that], but in some ways no less radical
for that. I haven't seen anything like it since the Portuguese Army
overthrew the Fascist dictatorship in Lisbon in 1974 and sent what it called
'dynaminzation' teams out into the countryside to try to dislodge the torpor
and backwardness of decades."

Hitch bears the Special Burden of being one of the few Western intellectuals
to really "get it," and he handles the weight in typical fashion.

DP