The institute invited Soviet scholars and politicians to help us better understand what was going on in the Soviet Union. They sponsored a trip that Senator Levin and I took with Senator Simpson to Moscow for several days to meet with Andrei Sakharov and others, in an effort to make us better informed. Those are the kinds of trips that we ought to encourage.
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Democracy in that sense, worked with the people, spoke out and said, no. You'll work with a system democracy, it can be messy but dictatorships are a menace.
Right now they've got to provide for the defense as best they can for the Israeli citizens who are now at risk and those who have been kidnapped and may be subject to torture and abuse.
We're watching the slow, or I'd say even rapid dissolution of democracy under his hands. He is doing it day after day.
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