We should have learned that economic reform. pacification of the countryside. social justice. and the establishment of democratic institutions cannot be accomplished overnight. In short. Mr. President. we should have learned that nation building. especially in the Third World. is a long. tedious. agonizing process. We should have learned. too. that even ifor whenwe tire of the challenge. the flow of refugees will not stop or the hunger. killing. disenfranchisement. and terror will come to an end. In fact. if the triumph of totalitarianism in Southeast Asia has taught us anything. it has taught us exactly the opposite. The refugee camps have swollen. hunger stalks the landscape. killing is commonplace. disenfranchisement is the political reality. and terror is rampant. Somehow. Mr.
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