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A new US president shouldn't dismiss democratization
By Marina Ottaway
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

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The Bush administration's Freedom Agenda - an undertaking rich in rhetoric and bombast and poor on substance - has been an unqualified disaster. It has not helped bring about change in the region, but it has undermined American credibility. Yet the next administration in the United States must not succumb to the temptation.

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