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September 7, 2008

Discuss Sunday's local commentary

An old visitor with a new look at the new South Africa

By Frederick Gusler
Gulser lives in Roanoke and is a city planner.

From 1948 to 1994, apartheid, the Republic of South Africa's former policy of mandatory racial segregation, aroused a level of scorn among humanitarians typically reserved only for bloodthirsty dictators. Sadly, a beautiful country became solely associated with its ugly laws. By the 1980s, apartheid might as well have been the country's name, as it had grown to be exponentially larger than the life of its benefactors.
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Tread carefully upon Russia

By Donald Nuechterlein
Nuechterlein teaches American foreign policy at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is "Defiant Superpower: The New American Hegemony."

The Bush administration sustained a serious diplomatic defeat recently in its efforts to bring Georgia into the North Atlantic alliance. One question is, was the outcome predictable? Another is, what can we learn from the short war in Georgia?
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