Belarus, Russia, US

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-515

Maybe this concern is a barn doors and horses kind of thing in my part. But this sort of pro-democracy intervention in Belarus (and Uzbekistan, for that matter) is exactly what caused them to tilt so strongly to Russia and away from Europe and the US. Belarus will be part of the Eurasian Union. Uzbekistan told us to leave our base there in 2005 thanks to our insistence on their following our style of government. There was a general feeling in that country that the US tried to stir up "trouble" (pro-democracy movements) in former Soviet countries during the time if the color revolutions in Georgia and the Ukraine. Our meddling in their internal affairs was and is not welcome, and we need to understand that. How about we take this as a lesson of the Arab Spring: the peoples of (most) countries will rise up if they truly want a different form of government. Not all of them will want Euro-American style democracy either. But we need to just grit our teeth, and stop being so naive and idealistic about who we make nice with in the world and cone back on down to reality.