Bryon Daly wrote:
...
> History never really does fully repeat itself. An American president has
> just announced almost a Marshall Plan's worth of spending on a country far
> poorer than Germany, two years earlier than Harry Truman did. But Iraq is
> far less stable and far more menacing, and the world is less willing to
> help. This week, it looks as if the Americans have won the war and lost the
> peace -- but we ought to remember that it's looked that way before.
>
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Nice find! Germany did have long democratic traditions to
work with, though. It had just momentarily forgotten them. : )
Not that that could happen any place else.
---David
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