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Which made him something of an anomaly. Outside the U.S. the 1930s was an era of dictatorship and, increasingly, of death. In the Soviet Union millions perished in the Ukraine famine of 1932-33 and the Great Terror of 1936-38. Hitler, meanwhile, was ending German unemployment largely by building a war machine that had to be turned loose eventually--and was, on Sept...
...learn much from the example of Taiwan--a nation that has transformed a repressive dictatorship into a vibrant democracy through the will and determination of its people...
...then what? Advocates suggest there is a palatable alternative to Saddam just waiting to step in. In fact, all efforts to organize an effective Iraqi opposition have failed. There is a good chance Saddam would be replaced by Saddam II, another Baathist general ready to continue the military dictatorship. More likely still, a headless Iraq would go the way of Lebanon, fractured among Kurds in the north, Shi'ites in the south and Sunnis in the center egged on by meddling neighbor states pursuing oil and ethnic interests...
Your fawning coverage of Castro might have been understandable in 1959, but not after a 39-year dictatorship remarkable only for its brutality. TIME has helped perpetuate the suffering of the Cuban people. But the Pope has demanded freedom and justice for the Cubans. The flame of Christ's love has been lighted in their hearts, never again to be blown out by evil. GEORGE J. FOWLER III, Director Cuban American National Foundation New Orleans...
...take Iran as an example. In the past five decades, we have never been successful in our experience with freedom. The Islamic revolution of 1979 was Iran's only real opportunity to experience freedom because of two exceptional features of that revolution: it uprooted the colonial sponsored dictatorship without resorting to the power of weaponry, and the revolution started with freedom rather than suppression. But the alien agents who had affected our destiny in the past did not stay idle, and hatched plots and therefore prevented us from enjoying the fruits of freedom...