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Article: LESSONS IN HISTORY, DEMOCRACY
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2008
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Huddled masses still yearn to be here
I WAS singularly unimpressed by Miles J. Unger's Op-ed
("Democracy: The lessons of history," July 19). He demonstrates how
easy it is to swipe at the United States by choosing among
historical facts and contemporary observations to confirm his grand
judgment that we are making a mess of it.
My grand judgment is that the country has had an extraordinary
positive historical record, because we have faced up to so many of
our defects on a larger geographic scale and with a larger
population drawn from more races, cultures, religions and places
than the Athenians or Florentines probably could count.
How many other countries have sent their sons far away to ...
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