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...could Putin be Person of the Year in anyone's book? All he's doing is fronting a restyled, repackaged communism characterized by the criminalization of dissent. His political feats of derring-do are irrelevant. Peter Lomtevas, New York City...
...should have named General David Petraeus Person of the Year. Petraeus' handling of the counterinsurgency in Iraq has been nothing but a miracle. When I was deployed there in 2005 and '06, it was clear that we needed to change the way we were fighting. Iraqi officers and leaders told me we needed to get out of the castle mentality and get into the streets with the Iraqis. Petraeus' plan was to do just that, and it has worked. Michael J. Mawson, Lieut. Colonel, USAF, Colorado Springs...
...extremely pleased to see that you chose Putin as Person of the Year. The fact that he is unlike his predecessors Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev has proved positive for him. Putin is a leader who conveys the firmness of an unshakable persona. He has been successful in gaining economic prosperity for Russia and reviving it as a superpower. Putin does his best to keep friends with the U.S. while simultaneously checking its global policing activities. As long as Putin is around, he will have a much greater role to play in international affairs, and Russia is sure...
...activism that characterized our parents’ generation. Even in the Presidential election of 2004, when the youth vote surged to its highest rate ever—47 percent—the rate still lagged well behind that of all other age groups. 2003’s 200,000 person-strong march against the War in Iraq doesn’t compare to the half-a-million-person 1969 and 1971 demonstrations against Vietnam . Marches on Washington Mall, it seems, have been replaced by Facebook groups and lunch counter sit-ins by Product [Red] T-shirts...
...that our next government is truly of the people, by the people and for the people—and that includes of, by, and for America’s youth. So go out, and cast your ballot—in the name of liberty, and for every disenfranchised young person in the world who would die for the opportunity to do so him or herself...