FAIR Blog » pardon http://www.fair.org/blog The national media watch group Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:32:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 'Sane and Moderate' or 'Feudal'? http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/01/12/sane-and-moderate-or-feudal/ http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/01/12/sane-and-moderate-or-feudal/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:18:09 +0000 Jim Naureckas http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=4515 It is a hallmark of a sane and moderate society that when it changes leaders and regimes, those left behind should be abandoned to the judgment of history. It is in savage societies that the defeat of a ruling faction entails its humiliation, exile and murder.

--Charles Fried, New York Times op-ed page (10/11/09)

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Russia is so feudal in its system of patronage and reward that it is virtually impossible for a leader to hand over power without controlling his successor or at least receiving an exemption from prosecution--something Mr. Putin granted his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, in 1999.

--Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times op-ed (1/12/09)

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