November 6, 2007 By James Kimer

The Glamour and Benevolence of Foreign Dictators

Today Anne Applebaum observes that although not even Russians are celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution this week, “Western weakness for other people’s revolutionary violence, the belief in the glamour and benevolence of foreign dictators, and the insistence on seeing both through the prism of Western political debates, are still very much with us” – as demonstrated by supermodel Naomi Campbell’s private visit with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

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