The article itself is a call for unity among English-speaking peoples in preparation for oncoming wars:
Properly circumscribed, the idea of an “Anglosphere” can constitute something meaningful. We should not commit the mistake of “thinking with the blood,” as D. H. Lawrence once put it, however, but instead emphasize a certain shared tradition, capacious enough to include a variety of peoples and ethnicities and expressed in a language—perhaps here I do betray a bias—uniquely hostile to euphemisms for tyranny.
However you want to describe this "Anglosphere" Hitch is bleating on about, I know for certain that I am utterly against it. And I say that as an American who loves P.G. Wodehouse, has lived in England and traveled extensively in Canada.
Hitch's article is not only a declaration of war against "Islamist sectarianism" but essentially a call for war against Russia and China, among many other peoples, nations, countries:
In considering the future of the broader Anglosphere tradition, especially in the context of anti-jihadism, it may help to contrast it with the available alternatives. As a supranational body, the United Nations has obviously passed the point of diminishing returns. Inaugurated as an Anglo-American “coalition of the willing” against Hitler and his allies, the UN—in its failure to confront the genocides in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur and in its abject refusal to enforce its own resolutions in the case of Iraq—is a prisoner of the “unilateralism” of France, Russia, and, to a lesser extent, China. NATO may have been somewhat serviceable in Kosovo (the first engagement in which it ever actually fought as an alliance), but it has performed raggedly in Afghanistan. The European Union has worked as an economic solvent on redundant dictatorships in Spain, Portugal, and Greece, and also on old irredentist squabbles in Ireland, Cyprus, and Eastern Europe. But it is about to reach, if it has not already, a membership saturation point that will disable any effective decision-making capacity.
So let's just go ahead and junk the United Nations, NATO and the European Union, since they've obviously proven themselves incapable. We can easily replace these institutions with a new Anglo-American system headed up by me, William Kristol and Paul Wolfowitz.
Anyway, I don't know about you guys, but I'll side with Russia any day of the week against this Anglosphere nonsense. This would be a war I'd fight for: against Hitchens and his army.
Oh yeah, the essay is also a book review of some ultraconservative jerkoff named Andrew Roberts, who Hitchens slightly rebukes for being too much of an out and out white racist, before finally heaping praise on the man and his new book on how we white people need to get together to combat jihadism.
The essay is almost unbearably long, but go read it yourself. Do my emotions exaggerate when they tell me Hitch's essay is racist filth, pure and simple? It's also an open defense of Empire...Jesus...enough.
