--- Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
>
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