He is willing to write about the British propaganda of WW I about those evil 1914 Germans tossing the babies into their bayonets when they marched into Belgium and causing other harm to that country.
That propaganda was used to convince Americans to get involved in the war.
Something more that Hitchens didn’t write about.
An American guy who worked for a British mining company started an effort to provide “relief” for Belgium.
His name was Herbert Hoover, a future POTUS.
Foreign collusion with a future President of the United States.
I picked that up by inference from looking at the exhibits at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in Iowa this summer.
There’s been revisionist thinking that perhaps the Belgian atrocities were, in fact, true. Whether they impaled babies...
I don’t think that’s what got us into the war, anyway - I’d say the sinking of the Lusitania was a more likely excuse.