Volume 53, Number 15 · October 5, 2006
The Moving Target
By John Gray
The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terror
by George Soros
Public Affairs, 259 pp., $24.00
No single person has done more to promote the open society—a society in which free expression and political opposition are protected—over the past thirty years than George Soros. During the Communist era he used his Open Society Foundation to support greater freedom in the Soviet bloc and China. After the Communist system imploded his foundations acted to mitigate the impact of ethnic war in former Yugoslavia. Later they backed reform movements in Georgia and Ukraine, and Soros formed close relationships with the new leaders who emerged, such as President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia. This led Russian President Vladimir Putin to accuse him of orchestrating the 'color revolutions.'
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