Quote by Christopher Hitchens
There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar. – Christopher Hitchens

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