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 Importance of Imperialism
Christopher Hitchens: I think from Hincians's perspective, what he so much of what he hated the most about was that we're propping up these like, you know, right-wing dictators in Latin America. If George W. Bush had been fighting wars against like peasant communist revolutionaries, like LBJ had Vietnam or Reagan had a Nicaragua for that matter,. Right? And then I don't think Hincians never would have brought himself to support that. But I think what he starts to see in the kinds of enemies were fighting in the 90s and 2000s. You know, slippet on Milosevic, thislike right-wing ethnodationalist government in
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