But those hateful Serbs, of course, had no right to seek to opt out of it. It is always a challenge for democracies to respond sensibly to forces that threaten democratic values. But harsh restrictions on speech themselves threaten democracy. Imagine if the Russians, let alone Slobodan Milosevic, had been imprisoning people with the cheerful abandon of the Turks. Today, as always, selective liberal indignation serves as handmaiden for US power.
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