A wartime lexicon.

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• "Evil" Scoff if you must, but you can't avoid it.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 31, 2002
  
• "WMD" and "Inspection" Are Saddam's weapons really so unconventional? 
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 26, 2002
  
• Multilateralism and Unilateralism A self-canceling complaint.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 18, 2002
  
• Imperialism Superpower dominance, malignant and benign.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 10, 2002
  
• Anti-Americanism Varieties right and left, foreign and domestic.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 27, 2002
  
• Terrorism Notes toward a definition.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 18, 2002
  
• "Armchair General" The ugly idea that non-soldiers have less right to argue for war.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 11, 2002
  
• Machiavelli in Mesopotamia The case against the case against "regime change" in Iraq.
  Christopher Hitchens Nov. 7, 2002