COLUMNISTS Suicide of the West?
Posted: September 4, 2009 at 3:21 a.m.
Britain's release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi-the Libyan terrorist whose bomb blew up a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people-is galling enough in itself. But it is even more profoundly troubling as a sign of a larger mood that has been growing in the Western democracies in our time.
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Editorial, Pages 18 on 09/04/2009
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