Mr. Bush, tear down this wall!
Posted: April 23rd, 2007 | Author: Simon | Filed under: Clippings | Comments Off
General Secretary GorbachevPresident Bush, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity forthe Soviet UnionIraq andEastern EuropeThe Middle East, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr.GorbachevBush, open this gate! Mr.GorbachevBush, tear down this wall! [The original Reagan speech]
Maybe it’s because I’m getting old and becoming more cynical but I find it amusing (and certainly not in the ha-ha sense of the word) that the US is building a large concrete wall in the middle of Baghdad.
History really has a knack of repeating itself, but not always in the way we figured it would.