HERE KID--NOW GO BUY YOURSELF SOME DEMOCRACY. Anne Bayefsky on the just concluded Prague Democracy and Security Conference and the dissidents who spoke there.

Palestinian human-rights activist Bassam Eid: “the Arab world today is in trouble and is not helped by the fact that the international community applies a double-standard to it — refusing to insist that the society, including Palestinian society, must ready itself for democracy before handing millions to the security forces of autocracies.”

But the international community is not paying to enable democracy; they are paying to be left alone.

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