Christopher Hitchens on the September 11 attacks
Part I of a speech given in a panel at the Claremont Institute in Washington, D.C. on Sep. 18th, 2006 Christopher Hitchens speaks about the threat posed to modern civilisation by Islamic extremists and the failure of the USA government and civil society to react adequately to it.
You can read about his arguments in the part "War" of his book "Love, Poverty and War" in essays he wrote for "The Nation" and "Vanity Fair" as well as on www.slate.com.
The complete discussion on C-SPAN, with Bill Kristol and Mark Helprin is available in much better quality here: http://fora.tv/2006/09/18/Constitutio...