Demonstartors and riot police face off in front of the Greek parliament in Athens during a nationwide strike in Greece, May 5, 2010. John Kolesidis/ReutersThe Other European Volcano -- Victor Davis Hanson, Real Clear World
Five years ago, the European Union's account of itself resonated with end-of history triumphalism. In organic fashion, democratic socialism would spread eastward and southward, recivilizing the old Warsaw Pact and the Balkans through cradle-to-grave entitlements, state unionism, radical environmentalism, and utopian pacifism. No wonder that Turkey begged - and often humiliated itself in the process - to get inside this more perfect union.
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