Bush's Vision Fails to Win Over Middle East
When will the Busheviks ever get it through their heads that most of the world is NOT INTERESTED in 'democracy:' American style? American democracy is a crude parody at best, and no amount of image-polishing will dispell this notion from anyone but the Americans themselves...Published on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 by the Guardian / UK
by Simon Tisdall
" Jack Straw put his finger on it. Speaking after a disputatious Middle East summit in Bahrain at the weekend, the foreign secretary said: "It would be a disaster if this region thought democracy was an American idea." Many in the region appear to think exactly that - and have ideas of their own.
Washington's latest disappointment came when a 30-country Middle East "democratic manifesto" statement was torpedoed in Bahrain. Backed by Saudi Arabia, Egypt insisted that governments should decide which activist groups benefited from a new $50m (£29m) regional democracy fund." ....Read rest of article from the Common Dreams News Center
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