Everything Old is New Again

And as The Communists in China start acting like the Manchus, the comparison of Vladimir Putin to Tsar Alexander III is becoming ever more apt, according to this report by Ariel Cohen on TechCentralStation. Amazing, ain't it? One begins to wonder if we're the only place on earth, aside from that constitutional monarchy that hangs out with Europe, that really gives a crap about democracy.


Doubtless non-Americans the world over would find that remark patently offensive. And on further consideration, I know it to be wrong. I think the Eastern Europeans care about democracy very, very much. The Poles, for example, care so much that they have a brigade at work in Iraq.


For most of the rest (musn't forget the Italians), however, I shrug Gallicly.