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Monday, August 14, 2006
A depressing pattern
Saul Singer outlines a depressing history of the world, at least since the 20th century.Here is my grand unified theory of the history of the universe:
-democracies show weakness;
-dictators are emboldened and attack;
-democracies respond slowly, insufficiently, or appease;
-dictators are further emboldened and attack harder;
-war;
-democracies win;
-start over again... Depressing, isn't it? But rather accurate. And in light of the way Iran is behaving, about to be repeated.
posted by Betsy Newmark permalink 7:50 AM
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