I keep thinking back on Tiananmen, which was unfolding as I flew to Asia for the first time. In the end, those events brought out the most cynical and self-serving elements of our political "elite". In the end, it seems, those young lives were wasted. This is a nightmare that keeps recurring. Different land, different ideology that confronts the democratic impulse, different faces. But the same bloody tragedy.
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I keep thinking back on Tiananmen, which was unfolding as I flew to Asia for the first time. In the end, those events brought out the most cynical and self-serving elements of our political "elite". In the end, it seems, those young lives were wasted.
This is a nightmare that keeps recurring. Different land, different ideology that confronts the democratic impulse, different faces. But the same bloody tragedy.
Who will be Scowcroft this time?
You mean who will Obama send to whisper his "true thoughts"? The One calls upon The One....
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