We always knew it was about the imperial designs and ambitions, per PNAC!
New York Times playing prop foolies with the public again!
"Seeking a Path in Democracy’s Dead End" by C. J. CHIVERS"
".... the latest signal of an undeclared shift in Washington’s foreign policy across the stunted democracies and outright dictatorships that lie to Moscow’s southeast, from the Caspian Sea to China’s borders.
In the last three years in these former vassals of the Kremlin, the exuberant vision of nurturing pluralistic societies and governments responsive to popular will — enunciated by President Bush’s public calls for democratization — has met so many obstacles that it has been quietly recalibrated. Throughout the region, journalists and opposition figures have been harassed, threatened, beaten, imprisoned and sometimes killed. American policy has accepted less ambitious goals.
Democracy promotion is not gone. But it has taken its place in a wider portfolio of interests. These include access to oil and gas, improving trade and transportation infrastructure and expanding military, counter-narcotic and counter-terror cooperation — all informed by a sense that in the competition with Russia and China for regional influence, the United States has lost ground.
If the shift seemed abrupt, it was not. The erosion of the ambitious vision began almost as soon as it was declared.
Three years ago, street demonstrations had forced exhausted governments from power in Georgia and Ukraine, and the new governments were vowing to embrace the West. Opposition parties in the Caucasus and Central Asia thought they saw signs that civil liberties and government by citizens’ consent might be universal and inevitable.
In February 2005, Mr. Bush spoke as if one of his principal aims was to rescue repressed populations, in part through suffrage, and help them choose their own course. “The ultimate goal,” Mr. Bush said, was “ending tyranny in our world.”
Is that not disgusting or what, him saying that and the New York Times describing Bush intentions to "rescue repressed populations" while he REPRESSES ONE here at home!?
Weeks later, demonstrators in Kyrgyzstan chased President Askar Akayev over the border, the aftermath of yet another rigged election.
No demonstrations in AmeriKa though!
There seemed to be momentum to the “color revolutions,” as they came to be called after the roses carried by defiant Georgians and the orange banners of the Ukrainian revolution. Popular discontent, reminiscent of the grassroots energy that finally toppled the Soviet Union 15 years before, seemed on the rise. This was to be a second wave.
Except that it was already over.... "
