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To: Robert Mayer
I'm not even sure if you read the article.

I did. The conclusion was based on speculation.

The Rose and Orange Revolutions had much more of an effect on Kyrgyzstan than voting in Iraq did, because these opposition movements have been in the works for several months now. Your misunderstanding is not one of the intent of U.S. foreign policy, but of its bounds and the politics of Central Asia.

Who said that the Iraqi election is the only factor? There also were elections in Afghanistan, which is in the neighborhood. And Kyrgyzstan has been a thugocracy since it split off from the former Soviet Union, and remained such for years. None of these countries underwent democratic reforms until the implementation of the Bush Doctrine.

6 posted on 03/25/2005 11:18:02 AM PST by dirtboy (Drooling moron since 1998...)
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To: dirtboy

Then it depends on when you consider the Bush Doctrine went in to place. I have thought of it as since his inauguration speech. But in fact, the first revolution was in Serbia long before the war in Afghanistan and election in the region. Then came Georgia in 2003 and Ukraine this past November.

But you don't address your knowledge of the region. The primary causation of these events has certainly not been the Bush Doctrine as everyone hopes. It's a home grown thing.


7 posted on 03/25/2005 10:41:45 PM PST by Robert Mayer
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