Lukashenka: Best Friends With Bill Clinton

While in Belarus a few years back, I was in a college dorm speaking with some students. One of them said something so profound and heartbreaking that it was all I could do to keep from crying on the spot. HEre is what she said: "Growing up, we were told what pigs Americans were, how bad their govt. was, and how their people were naked and starving and how wonderful we had it here in Belarus under communist rule. Then the Berlin Wall fell and the curtain was torn and all that I had been told I found to be a lie. We (meaning the Belarussian people) were the ones who were actually naked and starving and America and it's people live 1000 times better than we do."

Mr. Lukashenka is trying desperately to hang on to pre-Berlin Wall days and reinforce the lies perpetrated upon his own countryman. One of the older people told me while I was there, that it was just a "matter of time" before the communist regime would return. The sad fact is, under Lukashenka it never really left. Belarus, we pray for you...