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History is calling. Will Obama answer?
By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
November 11, 2009
Anniversaries
are opportunities to reflect on the past, and on what it might mean for
the future. Monday saw the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin
Wall, even if Barack Obama could not find time to travel once again to
Berlin to attend the commemoration there. And Wednesday is the 91st
anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I.
The two events being remembered can be seen as bookends: the beginning
and end of the history of a Short Twentieth Century. Until 1914 the
world had seemed to be on a march toward democracy, liberty, economic
growth and globalization, under the leadership of Western Europe and
its offspring America.
Then the horrific slaughter and seeming pointlessness of World War I
delegitimized Western values for intellectuals and artists, but also
for statesmen and politicians and ordinary people. World War I gave
birth to Communism in Russia and made the ground of Italy and Germany
fertile for fascism and Nazism. The latter two were utterly defeated in
1945. Communism persisted for four and a half decades more.
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