It's hard to believe that Georgia's Rose Revolution was less than two years ago, and we're cheered by what we've seen since: the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Purple Revolution in Iraq, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan.

It's hard to believe that Georgia's Rose Revolution was less than two years ago, and we're cheered by what we've seen since: the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Purple Revolution in Iraq, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan. We may soon add another to the list if recent protests in Azerbaijan escalate in the lead-up to parliamentary elections in November. The former Soviet republic is ruled by Ilham Aliev, the son of its Soviet-era henchman Geidar Aliev, and the election in 2003 that brought Ilham to power was indisputably rigged. So when 10,000 protesters marched across Azerbaijan's capital on June 4 demanding free elections and democratic reforms, one could not help hearing echoes of the other former Soviet republics that have shed the last shackles of the USSR in recent years. Note, too, that protesters in this predominantly Muslim country carried posters of President Bush. Some may tire of the naming of democratic revolutions-Rose, Tulip, etc.--but this is one media trend we're happy to see continue.