President Bush met with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, left, on Nov. 10, 2005, in the Oval Office of the White House. Such meetings with Arab dictators diminished Bush's image among democracy advocates in the Middle East. | Chuck Kennedy / MCTWhy George W. Bush Is The Arab Spring's Forgotten Man -- James Rosen, McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — On Nov. 6, 2003, then President George W. Bush gave a major foreign policy address in which he called for the spread of democracy across the Middle East, an appeal that seems to be resonating in this year of Arab Spring revolts.
Yet less than three years after leaving office, Bush's name isn't associated with the uprisings from Cairo to Tripoli, and he gets little credit for having inspired them.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Benghazi: A Sea of Al-Qaeda Flags -- John Rosenthal, NRO
Islamists in power; what could go wrong? -- Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post
Why Iran might welcome bombing -- Amir Taheri
The Prime Minister and the Sunnis -- New York Times editorial
Turkey's decisive about-face on Syria -- Joshua Walker, Gulf News
Damascus's upper class clings to its privileged illusions -- Jasmine Roman, The National
Another Effort to Destroy Israel -- Elliott Abrams, Weekly Standard
Why Pakistan Can't Turn China Against the U.S. -- Max Fisher, The Atlantic
Property Prices Collapse in China. Is This a Crash? -- Gordon Chang, Forbes
Papandreou's embattled, but Berlusconi's king of no confidence -- Uri Friedman, Foreign Policy
The population disaster looms mostly for Africa -- Gwynne Dyer, Japan Times
Are spreading identity wars the scariest thing in the world? -- Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy