Dispatch from Berlin: Forgetting Why the Wall Fell
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We still pursue the illusion that democracy can be imposed from without. That's not how it happened then, and it isn't how it happens now: not in the German Democratic Republic and not in Iraq or Afghanistan either.
Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 11.09.2009 | World