http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MufGs0MQrPg Hitchens and I went at it at Wesleyan. I have read two books by Hitchens, the one on Mother Teresa and the one on Kissinger and found them both to be oddly thin in content and research. But when it comes to speaking, he was of exceptionally smooth locution as you will see in this tape. His position was shocking to me in its presumption that U.S. military... power can be used to rescue and police nations (while destroying them.) Once he threw in his lot with the neo-cons and Bushites, the mainstream media including Fox and all the other reactionaries opened their doors to him. He thus achieved a national exposure in one year that he had not been able to achieve in the 20 years before. As for myself, I was less interested in scoring debating points with Hitchens than in critiquing U.S. imperialism.See More
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