As soon as people become a little less fearful, they will also begin demanding more freedom.
Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.
Free nations generally look for ways to deal with dictators amicably.
If you have to fight an enemy at a critical point in time, and you have an ally who happens to be a dictator, you don't say: Let's stop fighting right now, because you're not a democrat. That would be ridiculous.
Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all people.
My theory is that security - also against terror - can only be accomplished through global democratization.
Those who warned that Gorbachev was being put under too much pressure were wrong.
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