Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- November 7, 2011

President Bush met with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, left, on Nov. 10, 2005, in the Oval Office of the White House. Such meetings with Arab dictators diminished Bush's image among democracy advocates in the Middle East. | Chuck Kennedy / MCT

Why George W. Bush Is The Arab Spring's Forgotten Man -- James Rosen, McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — On Nov. 6, 2003, then President George W. Bush gave a major foreign policy address in which he called for the spread of democracy across the Middle East, an appeal that seems to be resonating in this year of Arab Spring revolts.

Yet less than three years after leaving office, Bush's name isn't associated with the uprisings from Cairo to Tripoli, and he gets little credit for having inspired them.

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