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COPYRIGHT 2005 Investor's Business Daily, Inc.
Freedom: "When you stand for your liberty," President Bush told the oppressed in his second inaugural, "we will stand with you." Now, one unfree nation after another is getting to its feet.
When Bush made that pledge, the media snickered and pundits rolled their eyes. Bring democracy to the Middle East? How naive. Muslims and others of their ilk simply aren't suited for it.
Now, two months later, it's clear how wrong they were. The sudden, stunning rush of events in the Mideast and Central Asia, as people fight for democracy, show Bush's words to be prophetic.
The Bush Doctrine -- that America will support democracy over tyranny wherever it occurs -- looks to us to be a moral and political force on par with...
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