Commentary: Liberty sprouts from the roots of tyranny

[unhappycamper]

Commentary: Liberty sprouts from the roots of tyranny
By Bob Ray Sanders | The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2011

Millions of people across the Middle East continue to cry out for something much more fundamental than the outcome of a sporting event.

The cry for freedom is rocking the foundations of age-old civilizations ruled by dictators, monarchs and tribal tyrants for far too long.

We saw it in Tunisia last month when people decided they could take no more from a president who had ruled for more than two decades. President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was forced to leave the country, making way for a new interim government that is calling for free elections later this year.

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Regardless of what happens in these countries, Americans must realize that for decades we have helped to prop up some of these dictators and then we are shocked when there's a change in government with new leaders who don't like us very much.

The other lesson we should learn from this (one I preached before the United States made the mistake of forcefully going into Iraq): You can't impose democracy on a people. They must want it, hunger for it so much that they are willing to fight for it, suffer for it and die for it.

[MasonJar]

1. And so far all they have gotten is a new set of dictators, just like

in the Russia which murdered the czar.