Posted on 05/12/2015 5:30:50 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Post-Cold War honeymoon is long over. It was a geopolitical honeymoon that the West should have never taken in the first place
After the Cold War ended, much promise was held out that the world would rapidly democratize—particularly states with notoriously poor human rights records such as China, Russia, Iran, and Cuba.
Alas, these were utopian dreams. We were told that transferring large amounts of wealth and technology to authoritarian regimes would make them richer and free—only the former took place. We educated their leaders, often at our taxpayers’ expense, with the promise that these Western educated leaders would usher in a new era of freedom in their home countries. This, too, failed to come to pass. What we often saw was our transferred knowledge being used against us, and to repress other peoples.
The latest Freedom House publication on Freedom in the World for 2015 confirms the pessimism:
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
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