Posted on 03/30/2005 10:01:23 PM PST by TheConservativeCitizen
In 2001, Bush said that the entire world must make a choice: “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” And while it was assumed that he was talking mostly to Middle East countries, it is now clear that the decision to spread freedom as a defense against terrorism was to be a global effort.
Many states chose wisely -- Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Libya, Jordan, Eqypt and others. Those countries have been protected and supported by American efforts. Other nations chose poorly -- Ukraine, Georgia, Iraq, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, and of course Iran and Syria. Russia and some others have tried to have it both ways. The latest revelation that United States and British intelligence played a major role in fomenting the Kyrgystan uprising, along with the previous news that we were also heavily involved in Georgia, Ukraine, and Lebanon, demonstrates the real danger to regimes who chose to oppose US interests.
Of the eight countries I listed as being on the wrong side of our demands, two have been conquered, three others have had their governments changed by US -led revolutions, one has had its main protectorate peeled off by a US-led uprising, and three remain. And don’t think that those remaining regimes aren’t looking at this same list. In the days following the Kyrgystan revolution, Belarus dictator Aleksander Lukashenko implemented a crackdown designed to squelch any ideas of a similar revolt in Minsk. Iran and Syria are furiously trying to stave off dissent in their own countries, and optimists like me believe their efforts can delay, but not prevent, a similar fate. Recall that I wrote earlier on this site that the US had obviously decided that the best way to change the regime in Tehran was through internal revolution. Have no doubt that CIA and MI6 efforts are alive and well throughout Iran and Syria.
While the mainstream media focuses almost exclusively on the military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan -- and naively attributes the revolutions to spontaneous “people power” -- the evidence shows that Bush’s ambitious plan to remake the world for freedom sake has been an awesome success.
Finally, the dynamic partnership between Bush and Blair on this front gives lie to the notion of the British PM as a mere “poodle” of Bush, and to the equally slanderous suggestions that these two men have committed to this endeavor for oil, legacy, profit, or electoral gain. Rather, it is now clear that the Bush/Blair partnership will join the Reagan/Thatcher and Roosevelt/Churchill duos in the pantheon of great Anglo-American teamwork. The efforts of the British Empire to defend and spread Western Civilization never really died, it turns out. It just crossed the Atlantic and began to operate under new management.
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