childersal wrote:
] This article really makes you think.

Worth a read as there is a good overview of America's imperialist history, but I'm not sure I agree with the final conclusions that Hitchens draws. He's a smart guy, that's for sure, but I think his break with some of the other left/Progressives over Sept. 11th might have left him a bit bitter. Certainly he appears to have moved towards a more centrist point of view. He used to be (still is?) a regular contributor to The Nation a decidedly Progressive periodical.

Imperialism - Superpower dominance, malignant and benign -- Christopher Hitchens