On the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution, during which students, patriots, poets, workers, and intellectuals tried to throw off the totalitarian Russian yoke and died in their thousands as they faced off against Soviet tanks, it’s a question I must ask as a supporter of America’s effort to liberate Iraq from Saddam:
Where are the Iraqi freedom fighters?
(please see below for copyright information crediting Time magazine, January 7, 1957)
The Hungarian Revolution lasted two weeks. During the next two weeks, I’ll try to write more about the similarities with Iraq, and about my despair regarding the differences.
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