The Washington Post, March 1st, 1997
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT maintains that its post-Cold War foreign policy, and its use of foreign aid in particular, are now aimed in large part at promoting democracy overseas. Given a chance to back that rhetoric with action in one obvious case, the administration has flubbed it. The country in question is Armenia, a nation of fewer than 4 million in the rugged Caucasus mountains. Armenia regained its long-lost independence in 1991, with the breakup of the Soviet Union. Enjoying widespread support in Congress, it has been receiving more U.S. aid per capita than any nation except Israel. For a tim...
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