Hitchens Vindicated?

The Euston Manifesto may be dismissed by many, but it (finally) represents some fresh perspective on the left:

It is vitally important for the future of progressive politics that people of liberal, egalitarian and internationalist outlook should now speak clearly. We must define ourselves against those for whom the entire progressive-democratic agenda has been subordinated to a blanket and simplistic “anti-imperialism” and/or hostility to the current US administration. The values and goals which properly make up that agenda

May 9th, 2006