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June 11, 2004
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This from Time in 1992:
According to aides who shared their leaders' view of the world, Reagan and John Paul II refused to accept a fundamental political fact of their lifetimes: the division of Europe as mandated at Yalta and the communist dominance of Eastern Europe. A free, non communist Poland, they were convinced, would be a dagger to the heart of the Soviet empire; and if Poland became democratic, other East European states would follow.
I could not help but notice the similarities to the view of G.W. Bush's administration with regards to Iraq and the Middle East. Just switch the countries and you can imagine an article in Time in 2014:
A free, non-Bathist Iraq, they were convinced, would be a dagger to the heart of the tyrannies of the Middle East; and if Iraq became democratic, other Middle Eastern states would follow.
Posted by Peter Mork at June 11, 2004 10:49 PM
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