"He may be an SOB, but he’s our SOB." So said President Franklin D. Roosevelt of Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, and how very American. For, from its first days, America has colluded with autocrats when the national interest demanded it. George Washington danced a jig in 1778 when he learned that our diplomats had effected … Continue reading "Is Democracy Versus Autocracy the New Cold War?"
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