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...skipped the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall when all the national leaders in the E.U. zone and the Russian President were there to commemorate the historical day not only of the fall of Berlin Wall but also of the collapse of communism. He didn't even want to be there to be part of it. It was a bad decision on his part not to be there to signify the role of the U.S. in Europe both in the past and the present, and to strengthen democracy in Eastern Europe. It's just a matter...
...read on I realized that Klein's ideas were not only rational and sound, they accurately described the problem with government employees' massive advantage in health insurance, and how the powerful unions will negate any attempt to tax their "gold-plated health care plans." The article even brought me to shame when he stated that we're nowhere close to a reasonable discussion about taxes, as I myself would have argued intensively against any form of taxation. Thanks Joe Klein for making me more critically aware of my own ideology's faults. Christian Rosello Fjell-Weiseth, TRONDHEIM, NORWAY
...even some of the more modest predictions about Jacob Zuma's rise to power had been correct, South Africa would be an empty, corrupt dictatorship by now. Back in 2006, South African memoirist Rian Malan ended his dismal assessment of the nation's prospects ("Not civil war, but sad decay") in British magazine the Spectator by asking: "Anyone want a house here?" A year ago, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said he was "deeply saddened" when Zuma staged a party coup against his predecessor Thabo Mbeki, "deeply disturbed" that both had used institutions of state in their struggle and warned that...
...heart of the hysteria about Zuma was genuine concern about whether a man who had faced trial for both rape (he was acquitted) and corruption (the charges were dropped) was fit for office. So many African liberation movements have gone from triumph to tyranny, hope to corruption. Even with the saintly figure of former leader Nelson Mandela in the wings, would Zuma and his party, the African National Congress (ANC), do the same? (See pictures of South Africa after 15 years of ANC rule...
...yawning inequality which juxtaposes black millionaires with millions scraping by on less than $2 a day and the world's largest HIV/AIDS population continue to drag on the country. But whereas Mbeki stoked a national mood of frustration by denying such crises existed, Zuma concedes they are real and even accepts blame. "These challenges are based in reality," the 67-year-old told TIME in a rare interview. "And it's only when you admit there have been deficiencies and weaknesses that you make sense to the people, who can see them for themselves. After 15 years [in power], people...