From a reader:

Bush’s address also undermines the arguments I’ve heard from fellow Jews that Bush’s support of Israel is a sham, and that as a born-again Christian, his primary motivation is his own religous views.
Before New Year’s, when I heard of Bush’s attraction to Sharansky’s ideas in his new book, I ordered it to read on vacation. As a Hebrew school student in the late ’70’s and early ’80’s, I and most of my friends wore the metallic “Refusnik” bracelets in solidarity and support of Sharansky and his fellow Jewish refusniks suffering in Russia, both in jails and in society at large. As a very liberal college freshman, I marched in Washington DC in December 1987 with thousands of others in order to convince Reagan to act on behalf of Refusniks. That an American president can base so much policy and political capital on the writings of a Jewish-former Gulag-prisoner should prove that he believes what he said on Thursday regarding the tides of freedom washing over the world in the years (even decades would be okay) to come.
I know that the ‘Lance Armstrong’ bracelets are all the rage with kids nowadays. Maybe “freedom” bracelets with the names of political prisoners held in non-democratic countries, from North Korea to Syria to Russia to China, might make an appearance soon?