Taking stock of just how far Bush’s reform agenda has fallen, my research assistant Jeffrey Azarva has put together a pretty good assessment of how Bush’s second term 180 degree policy reversal has left Egypt and Tunisia worse off, and reversed the admittedly uneven progress of his first term. It’s one thing to correct implementation of reforms; it’s another thing to simply abandon those Egyptians and Tunisians who heed freedom’s call. Nor is it in U.S. national security interests to abandon leverage and to allow the polarization of Egyptian and Tunisian societies to continue unchecked. It will cost us down the line.