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Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

“As we begin 2017, the most urgent threat to liberal democracy is not autocracy,” writes William Galston of The Wall Street Journal, “it is illiberal democracy.”

Galston’s diagnosis is not wrong, and his alarm is not misplaced.

Yet why does America’s great export, liberal democracy, which appeared to be the future of the West if not of mankind at the Cold War’s end, now appear to be a church with a shrinking congregation?

Submitted by Tom Luongo via PlanetFreeWill.com,

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has essentially reclaimed the city of Aleppo in the past couple of days.  The failure to break the siege from the Southwest coupled with the Turkish Army not resupplying militants meant the situation wouldn’t hold for long.