GEORGE W.BUSH IN HIS OWN SILLY WORDS….”ARAB SPRING IS BROADEST CHALLENGE TO AUTHORITARIAN RULE SINCE THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION” (?????!!!!)SEE NOTE

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SHAME ON HIM! COMPARING SAKHAROVV AND IDA NUDEL AND SHARANSKY TO THE BARBARIANS? I SURE HOPE THIS DRIVEL WILL NOT BE THE THINKING OF MITT ROMNEY…..RSK

Bush: ‘Arab Spring’ Is ‘Broadest Challenge to Authoritarian Rule Since Collapse of Soviet Communism’ by ELIZABETH HARRINGTONMay 16, 2012

Former President George W. Bush said Tuesday that the Arab Spring is “the broadest challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet Communism.”

“These are extraordinary times in the history of freedom,” Bush said in a speech in Washington, D.C., sponsored by his presidential foundation, the George W. Bush Institute.

“In the Arab Spring we have seen the broadest challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet communism,” Bush said. “Great change has come to a region where many thought impossible.

“The idea that Arab people are somehow content with oppression has been discredited forever,” Bush said. “Yet we’ve also seen instability, uncertainty, and the revenge of brutal rulers. The collapse of an old order can unleash resentments and power struggles that a new order is not yet prepared to handle.”

“Freedom is a powerful force,” Bush said, “but it does not advance on wheels of historical inevitability.” The event at which Bush spoke was entitled “Celebration of Human Freedom.”

While praising the Arab Spring, Bush said its critics adhere to a foreign policy that is “not realistic.”

“Some look at the risks inherent in democratic change, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa, and find the dangers too great,” Bush said. “America, they argue, should be content with supporting the flawed leaders they know, in the name of stability.”

“But in the long run this foreign policy approach is not realistic,” he said. “It is not realistic to presume the so-called stability enhances our national security. Nor is it within the power of America to indefinitely preserve the old order, which is inherently unstable.”

Two years after Bush left office, the Arab Spring uprisings swept across the Middle East, leading to major unrest in Syria, Tunisia, Jordan, and Yemen, and the toppling of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.

According to a report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the Egyptian parliamentary elections in January resulted in a massive victory for Islamist parties.

“Of the 498 elected seats, Islamists of varying sorts control nearly 70%, with the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP)-led Democratic Alliance controlling the most at 47% (235 total),” the Feb. 8 report stated. “The Islamist Alliance-list led by the Salafist Nour Party came second with 25% (125 seats).”

“Salafists,” the report states, “who take a conservative, literalist approach to interpreting the Koran, are expected to focus on infusing Islam into domestic and foreign policies.”

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