Possibilities. My own office at the state department has had a pretty consistent budget thanks to the congress to support Civil Society actors in a variety of countries and, of course, the National Endowment for democracy remains the pree moore institution in the world premier institution in the world for targeting assistance to democrats usually many tough places. So they know they have support from the outside community, from the International Community. So let me mention a couple of things just to wind up this opening scene setter. One is that i think we in the United States need to appreciate the Important Role that congress plays. While we disparage its occasional polarization and inability to resolve certain major things, the congress has been a major contributor to american democracy programming in a lot of ways. Not least in the creation of my part of the state department. You know, the bureau for democracy, human rights and labor was created 30 years ago over the objections of
To see disorder, particularly in key parts of the world as were seeing now in the middle east. Second reality that we face is that oftentimes states that democratize can become democracies, may become less close partners of the u. S. In security matters, specifically the case if the u. S. Had supported an authoritarian regime that preceded it, then a new regime comes in and they seek to distance itself to a may not seek to doubt the full panoply of u. S. Security agenda. With the difficulties in our National Security establishment in being able to reconcile a commitment to the longterm which is to have spread of democracy and then realizing that shortterm impacts of democratization may not be supportive of the u. S. Security interests. We, of course, have seen this in parts of latin america, parts of the middle east we have seen in some parts of asia and then across the eurasian space. Then, of course, we come back to the question, well, what about our model in Eastern Europe, central
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