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Friday, February 24, 2006

It's Munich In America. There Will Be No Normandy.

"This is it, folks. This is the scenario our Founders lost sleep over. This is the day they prepared us for." Writes political science professor David Michael Green in this compelling essay about his views of the direction in which Bush's America is heading.

Quoting Churchill, he sagely opines:
"It is, I’m afraid, Munich in America, and now we must decide whether to appease the bullies and pray for happy endings, or fight back to preserve a two hundred year-old experiment in democracy. Despite all its flaws and failures, Churchill was still right about it: Democracy is the worst system of governance except for all the others. And that makes it worth fighting for."

Read full article from Common Dreams


David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York. He is delighted to receive readers' reactions to his articles (pscdmg@hofstra.edu), but regrets that time constraints do not always allow him to respond.

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Best regards from NY!
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