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Two new articles you’ll want to read. The first one is an op-ed written by Pres. Bush for the Wall Street Journal:

George W. Bush: The Arab Spring and American Ideals

By GEORGE W. BUSH

These are extraordinary times in the history of freedom. In the Arab Spring, we have seen the broadest challenge to authoritarian rule since the collapse of Soviet communism. The idea that Arab peoples are somehow content with oppression has been discredited forever.

Yet we have also seen instability, uncertainty and the revenge of brutal rulers. The collapse of an old order can unleash resentments and power struggles that a new order is not yet prepared to handle.

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The second article is about a film screening of a documentary on Aung San Suu Kyi that President and Laura Bush hosted last night in Dallas:

George W. Bush cautions against forgetting that 'the human condition overseas matters to our national security'

ByTom Benning / Reporter

tbenning@dallasnews.com

9:28 AM on Thu., May. 17, 2012

Former President George W. Bush - a day after telling a Washington audience that the U.S. should take a more active role in supporting democracy movements across the world - further defined the stakes Wednesday night in Dallas. "One of the dangers facing our country is that we don't care what happens in other places around the world," Bush said. "One of the lessons of 9/11 is that the human condition overseas matters to our national security. That's something we can't begin to forget."

The former president - whose namesake public policy institute is promoting its Freedom Collection, an online video archive of interviews with nonviolent dissidents - touched on his foreign policy views at a Bush Institute movie screening of "The Lady."