Source: The Realist Review
by James W Carden
“Like many of the brightest minds of his generation (not least Bill Clinton), Christopher Hitchens was seduced by the prospects of humanitarian intervention in the 1990s, after spending his formative years protesting the Vietnam War. Hitchens’[s] turn toward neocon militancy attracted notice among certain of his colleagues well before the war in Iraq. … Hitchens’[s] erstwhile colleague, the legendary Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn, felt that Hitchens ‘craved to be an insider.’ It was a trait, wrote Cockburn, ‘which achieved ripest expression when he elected to be sworn in as a US citizen by Bush’s director of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff.’ Yet there were other expressions of this craving, equally ripe.” (10/01/26)
https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/christopher-hitchens-warmonger