What about the Bush doctrine?
By Jeff Jacoby | Wednesday, May 28, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…’When you stand for your liberty,’ Bush told the world’s prisoners of conscience in 2005, ‘we will stand with you.’ Yet while the brave democrat Ayman Nour rots in an Egyptian jail, Washington continues to send $1.8 billion in aid each year to the brutal regime of Hosni Mubarak. The administration restored full diplomatic relations with Moammar Khadafy’s Libya, stopped designating it a sponsor of terror, and even invited the Libyan foreign minister to the White House. But it has forsaken Fathi el-Jahmi, Libya’s foremost democratic dissident, who has spent years in Khadafy’s dungeons for daring to advocate pluralism and free speech.
So it has gone in one country after another. In Russia, in Saudi Arabia, in China, the Bush administration’s commitment to liberty and democratic reform has subsided into little more than lip service. The principled ‘freedom agenda’ Bush championed so ardently has evaporated. In its place is the old ‘realist’ agenda he had sworn to overhaul: stability, business-as-usual, stand-by-your-(strong) man….”…BS
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