Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Friday, January 31, 2003


Vaclav Havel truly was a hero of Eastern Europe. He suffered mightily as a political prisoner to liberate the Czechs. He had his less-than-heroic aspects, to be sure: his goofy party-guy side and his tortured intellectualizing of Kurt Waldheim's vicious evil when he made a state visit. But he has more than earned his bold place in history among the Europeans like the Pope and Lech Walesa and Gorbachev -- and an American, Ronald Reagan -- who helped "tear down that wall."

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