re: Obama in Berlin: "We can't hide behind a wall"

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there is bad governance, if there is war or if there is poverty, in this new world that we live in we can't isolate ourselves. We can't hide behind a wall," he said in Berlin, at a panel on democracy with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. We need "to recognize what happens on the other side of the world or in these other countries that it has an impact on us," Obama said.

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So we can't isolate or protect ourselves from the third world. We have to recognize that the third world has an impact on us. Ok. After we recognize that, are we supposed to just open our borders to whoever wants to come?

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a panel on democracy with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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Apparently so.