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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (71269)	2/25/2011 12:49:21 PM
From: Secret_Agent_Man	Respond to of 217575

GENIUS!

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (71269)	2/25/2011 9:25:04 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217575

<George W Bush aka King George II will really have set off a democratic revolution> George was profoundly confused, about Means and Ends, with predictably bad results, when he tried to ram democracy down the throats of unwilling foreigners with American bayonets. The American who deserves most credit, for both the 1989-91 Soviet, and current Arab revolutions, is Gene Sharp: Shy U.S. Intellectual Created Playbook Used in a Revolution: Few Americans have heard of Mr. Sharp. But for decades, his practical writings on nonviolent revolution — most notably “From Dictatorship to Democracy,” a 93-page guide to toppling autocrats, available for download in 24 languages — have inspired dissidents around the world, including in Burma, Bosnia, Estonia and Zimbabwe, and now Tunisia and Egypt. When Egypt’s April 6 Youth Movement was struggling to recover from a failed effort in 2005, its leaders tossed around “crazy ideas” about bringing down the government, said Ahmed Maher, a leading strategist. They stumbled on Mr. Sharp while examining the Serbian movement Otpor, which he had influenced. When the nonpartisan International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, which trains democracy activists, slipped into Cairo several years ago to conduct a workshop, among the papers it distributed was Mr. Sharp’s “198 Methods of Nonviolent Action,” a list of tactics that range from hunger strikes to “protest disrobing” to “disclosing identities of secret agents.” nytimes.com