Western Democracy Is on Trial, More than Any Time Since WWII
... Carthage. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, the United States seemed poised to dominate the world for the foreseeable ... ... prevent the onset of the greatest global financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression (barely managing to address it ... ... failed to effectively deal with conflict in Libya, Ukraine, and Syria, all within or near its periphery. The situation in Syria ... ... which, it was just announced, will be pursued again. AP Even in Israel, considered a bastion of Western democracy in the Middle ...