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...Middle East believes that democracy is not preferable to the tyranny of Islamic fundamentalism. The debate is over tactics. Perhaps the only human attribute more powerful than the yearning for democracy is the loathing of political change wrought at gunpoint. Boot's signal example of democracy's triumph over tyranny is the collapse of the Soviet Empire. But that victory was not achieved by U.S. forces unilaterally storming the gates of the Kremlin and tearing down the statue of Lenin. Rather, the Soviet Union rotted from within, abetted by a sensible and hard-nosed policy of political, economic and military...
Five years after that dreadful day, we explored how it might be viewed in 25 years, how freedom can triumph in the Middle East and why many Americans don't think 9/11 was actually the work of terrorists. Readers argued over what's been done, what's left to do and what to believe from those in authority...
...idea of the triumph of one people being the tragedy of another is eloquently captured in Sandy Tolan's book, The Lemon Tree - essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the difficulty in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tolan chronicles the true story of Dalia Eshkenazi, whose family flees post-Holocaust Bulgaria in 1948 to live the Zionist dream of building a Jewish state in the Holy Land. The new Israeli government provides them with an abandoned Arab house in the town of Ramla, in which she grows up. One summer morning in 1967, she's sitting in the garden...
...Friday performance wasn’t enough, Trimble had a similarly successful outing on Saturday afternoon, in a non-conference 3-1 triumph over Maine...
...moods fluctuated between anger and joy, frustration and triumph. But a feeling of melancholy prevailed as I came face to face with the larger tragedy beyond my own: stolen youth. Specialist Hilario Bermanis, 21, had been built like a fullback when he left his home in Micronesia to join the Army. Now he was hunched in a wheelchair, a thick neck and broad shoulders the only reminder of his once muscular body. He had lost his left hand and both legs above the knee to a rocket-propelled grenade in Baghdad...