History buffs might have already seen this, but it’s amazing nonetheless: On the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Margaret Thatcher appealed to Mikhail Gorbachev to keep Germany divided:
Thatcher:
We are very concerned about the processes taking place in Eastern Germany. Some big changes could happen there, forced partly by the state of the […]

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Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian (U.K.):
If Americans choose McCain, they will be turning their back on the rest of the world, choosing to show us four more years of the Bush-Cheney finger. And I predict a deeply unpleasant shift.
Until now, anti-Americanism has been exaggerated and much misunderstood: outside a leftist hardcore, it has mostly been […]

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