Bush: ‘Arab Spring’ Is ‘Broadest Challenge to Authoritarian Rule Since Collapse of Soviet Communism’
(CNSNews.com) – 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 it 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.”
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Bush: ‘Arab Spring’ Is ‘Broadest Challenge to Authoritarian Rule Since Collapse of Soviet Communism’
It’s been a while since I made this statement on the blog; George W. Bush is a MORON.
It’s as true now as it was 4 years ago, to the day, a day when George W. Bush convinced even his most ardent supporters that he truly IS a dim bulb when it comes to having an understanding of the FACT that there will NEVER be peace among Arabs and Muslims.
The above story is from May 15, 2012, the story below is from May 15, 2008, the original story and my commentary. Coincidence perhaps? Or repetitive mind lapses?
Bush envisions a democratic Middle East free of oppression
JERUSALEM (AP) – President Bush feted Israel on Thursday in honor of the 60th anniversary of its founding and predicted that its 120th birthday would find it alongside a Palestinian state and in an all-democratic neighborhood free of today’s oppression, restrictions on freedom and extremist Muslim movements.
Delivering this rosy forecast for the Middle East in 2068 during a speech to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, Bush limited his mention of Palestinians to just one sentence. “The Palestinian people will have the homeland they have long dreamed of and deserved, a democratic state that is governed by law, and respects human rights, and rejects terror,” he said.
This scant talk of the other side of one of the world’s longest-running disputes contrasted jarringly with the more expansive treatment of the subject by Bush’s Israeli hosts.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the lawmakers that he is working hard for an accord and believes “when the day comes for a historic peace agreement” that both the Knesset and the Israeli public will support it “by a large majority.” The chamber reacted with silence and nervous laughter, which Bush briefly joined. Two hardline lawmakers walked out of the chamber in protest during Olmert’s address.
