Hitch’s new pals: Manhattan Institute and Frontpage - and Kipling
thomas_jefferson.html>, reprinted at Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3D27956> Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates
Christopher Hitchens America=92s first confrontation with the Islamic world helped forge a = new nation=92s character […] And then, finally, there is principle. It would be simplistic to say = that something innate in America made it incompatible with slavery = and tyranny. But would it be too much to claim that many Americans = saw a radical incompatibility between the Barbary system and their = own? And is it not pleasant when the interests of free trade and = human emancipation can coincide? I would close with a few staves of = Kipling, whose poem =93Dane-Geld=94 is a finer effort than anything = managed by Francis Scott Key: […] [also in City Journal 171urbanities-steyn.html>:] Facing the Islamist Menace
Christopher Hitchens Mark Steyn=92s new book is a welcome wake-up call.