Reagan tore down the Soviet wall. Bush brought purple ink to Iraq and sought world democracy. He said as long as leaders are making the decisions there will be unrest. He questioned whether people were beyond the reach of freedom. Elliot Abrams wrote yesterday: “This spirit did not always animate U.S. diplomacy in the Bush administration; plenty of officials found it unrealistic and had to be prodded or overruled to follow the president’s lead. But the revolt in Tunisia, the gigantic wave of demonstrations in Egypt and the more recent marches in Yemen all make clear that Bush had it right – and that the Obama administration’s abandonment of this mind-set is nothing short of a tragedy. … Looking at the world map, it sees states and their rulers, but has forgotten the millions of people suffering under and beginning to rebel against those rulers.”
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Posted on January 31, 2011
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