In Defense of Endless War

As 9/11 showed, civilization has enemies with which peace is neither possible nor desirable.
By Christopher Hitchens

A continuous and repetitive thread in the commentary on the decade since 9/11—one might almost call it an endless and open-ended theme—was the plaintive observation that the struggle against al-Qaida and its surrogates is somehow a "war without end."

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Part Two. Christopher Hitchens on ABC1 Lateline.

In this second part Christopher Hitchens talks about his public life, battles and some of the events in recent history which led to his break with the left.



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