{"id":253,"date":"2004-06-24T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T11:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=253"},"modified":"2007-04-16T19:32:43","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T00:32:43","slug":"solidarnosc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/solidarnosc","title":{"rendered":"Solidarnosc"},"content":{"rendered":"

A leader of Poland’s Solidarity movement gave an interview to Dissent recently, explaining his support for the war in Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[W]e know what dictatorship is. And in the conflict between totalitarian regimes and democracy you must not hesitate to declare which side you are on. Even if a dictatorship is not an ideal typical one, and even if the democratic countries are ruled by people whom you do not like. I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfield is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n[W]ho was worse, Ronald Reagan or Leonid Brezhnev? If I were American I would never have voted for Reagan, but as a Pole, I liked the tough position of Reagan toward Brezhnev. Perhaps Reagan did not quite understand what he was doing, and maybe Bush doesn’t understand either. But the facts are that, suddenly, Libya has begun to speak a different language. Syria has begun to speak a different language. Even North Korea has started to speak a different language. This is not to say that Bush is always right. Of course not. But you must see the hierarchy of threats, of dangers. I asked my French and German friends, Are you afraid that tomorrow Bush will bomb Paris? And can you really be sure that terrorists and fundamentalists will not attack the Louvre? So which side are you on?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A leader of Poland’s Solidarity movement gave an interview to Dissent recently, explaining his support for the war in Iraq: [W]e know what dictatorship is. And in the conflict between totalitarian regimes and democracy you must not hesitate to declare which side you are on. Even if a dictatorship is not an ideal typical one, … <\/p>\n

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