the weird thing about articles like these discussing the role of bush's "freedom agenda" had in the recent revolution in egypt is how they never bother to even mention the kefaya movement that formed in 2004, made international headlines in 2005, then languished in 2006 and was declared all but dead in 2007. even though the movement had its origins in the protests against the u.s. invasion of iraq, after it turned its attention to democratic reform in egypt, it was hailed at the time as an example of arabs taking up bush's call for freedom and as part of a democratic wave emanating from the new iraq. then it failed, or at least went dormant, and bush boosters stopped mentioning it.
and apparently they're still not mentioning it. if you're going to argue that recent events in egypt were caused by bush administration policies, you should at least acknowledge the existence of the contemporaneous democracy movement to explain why the administration's policies weren't enough to make that one succeed while bush was still in office.
and apparently they're still not mentioning it. if you're going to argue that recent events in egypt were caused by bush administration policies, you should at least acknowledge the existence of the contemporaneous democracy movement to explain why the administration's policies weren't enough to make that one succeed while bush was still in office.
