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Berlin to Baghdad-Building democracy isn't easy, but there's ample reason for hope.
Wall St Journal ^ | April 11, 2003 | DANIEL HENNINGER

Posted on 04/11/2003 4:49:38 AM PDT by SJackson

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:48:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

It was really only with the astonishing televised events from China's Tiananmen Square, followed by the fall of the Berlin Wall and communism in Eastern Europe, that the world's people began to see that they were no longer operating as political and economic islands. Politics, currencies, trade, and yes, basic political values are all being drawn together into an evolving consensus of what constitutes a world order. The Saddam Husseins of the world would wreck this. Their piracy would constantly shatter and retard the aspirations of workers at all levels of the world's economic system."


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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: tiananmen; wonderland

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