“It’s strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq."
A taste of freedom
Times Online (UK) Original Article
Two years ago, on the eve of the US-led invasion of Iraq, this newspaper said that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein could be the trigger for the long overdue spread of democracy throughout the Middle East. The winds of change after the dictator’s demise could, we hoped, result in a series of “velvet revolutions”, gradually replacing undemocratic regimes with people power. And, for those who thought such an outcome was implausible, that was exactly what was said before the largely peaceful revolutions that swept aside eastern Europe’s communist regimes in the late 1980s.
Times Online (UK) Original Article
Two years ago, on the eve of the US-led invasion of Iraq, this newspaper said that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein could be the trigger for the long overdue spread of democracy throughout the Middle East. The winds of change after the dictator’s demise could, we hoped, result in a series of “velvet revolutions”, gradually replacing undemocratic regimes with people power. And, for those who thought such an outcome was implausible, that was exactly what was said before the largely peaceful revolutions that swept aside eastern Europe’s communist regimes in the late 1980s.
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