The Bush doctrine and the rise of Islamic democracy


	The Bush doctrine and the rise of Islamic democracy

Monkfishy

1-11-2008 5:30 PM

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                                       Among the precepts of the “Bush Doctrine”—as loyalists to the current president call the set of foreign-policy principles
                                       by which they, and no doubt he, hope his tenure will be remembered—by far the most widely admired has been his stance on democracy
                                       in the developing world. The clearest articulation of this stance can be found in a November 2003 speech at the Washington
                                       headquarters of the United States Chamber of Commerce, when Bush sharply denounced not just tyranny in the Arab states but
                                       the logic by which the West had abetted it.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/03/0081425">
                                       Notwithstanding President Bush’s new “forward strategy of freedom,” the United States has marshaled nothing more than a few
                                       hollow demurrals against the antidemocratic abuses by its allies, and it maintains close partnerships with all of America’s
                                       old authoritarian friends in the region.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/03/0081425">
                                       Above all, America has refused to engage with Islamic opposition movements, even those that flatly reject violence and participate
                                       in democratic politics.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2EB87E38-0C1F-44BD-9B64-31A5291AA626/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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