"Bush Fertilizer" Brings Freedom Blooms

We appear to be living in a time as politically dynamic as were the 100 years between 1750 and 1850, another period that will change for the better, in aggregate at least, the way the human race lives.

In a story from Moscow on Kyrgyzstan and the diminishment of the Russian empire, the LATimes reported this morning:

"The only possible explanation for what happened is the gross, systemic miscalculation of the situation…. All of us have erred in believing in the general passiveness of the masses … and that authoritarianism will continue to prevail on the territory of the former USSR, no matter what," said Alexei Malashenko, an analyst with the Carnegie Moscow Center.

"The developments in Kyrgyzstan vividly demonstrate how wrong we were. They also demonstrate how rotten, unviable and brittle these regimes are," Malashenko said. "What happened in Bishkek shows that all the post-Soviet regimes are literally colossi with feet of clay — the slightest turmoil in their societies is enough to make these regimes crumble."

There is, of course, another possible explanation, a much better explanation, but note that Malashenko works for one of the Left Eight foundations, Carnegie, so he's probably not allowed to say it. The Kyrgyz people are looking West and seeing freedom begin to bloom, thanks to some "Bush fertilizer," spread through the blood of American hero soldiers, in other "rotten, unviable and brittle" regimes.

Russia needs to watch out. China needs to watch out. And throughout the Middle East and southeast Asia, the Mullahs, despots and Communists had better be preparing to duck and cover. This freedom, this democracy, this crying of the human spirit to be free, is mighty powerful stuff.