The Orange Revolution, Peeled
The Orange Revolution’s ignominious degeneration and ultimate rejection by the Ukrainian people is yet another example of a media-driven narrative, one created by ideology and a selective perception of the facts, crashing on the rocks of reality. Just like the “liberation” of Iraq was supposed to be a “cakewalk” culminating in the spread of democracy throughout the region, the so-called color revolutions of the post-Soviet era, in some cases directly supported and funded by the US government, were held up as sterling examples of the same liberatory impulse supposedly generated by the Bushian foreign policy of perpetual war. The “global democratic revolution,” as Bush dubbed it in a speech before the National Endowment for Democracy, was on the march. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/02/07/the-orange-revolution-peeled/
