Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)
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The Post-Cold War Disorientation of the United States
Christopher Hitchens thought that some future wave of global socialist revolutions would sweep all of these regimes into the dustbin of history. I think it is really important that the kinds of wars that the United States are fighting, uh, do seem at least superficially really different. There's a pretty considerable echo of the Nixon Kissinger approach to Cambodia in like the shock and awe bombing of Baghdad. And if George W. Bush had been fighting wars against like peasant communist revolutionaries like LBJ or like, uh, Reagan had a Nicaragua for that matter in a way, right?
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