The President's new crusade.(Prospects)
American Prospect, The, December, 2003 by Starr, Paul
On Nov. 6, George W. Bush claimed the legacy of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan in a speech setting out a "forward strategy" to extend freedom and democracy to the Islamic nations of the Middle East. Liberty, the president said, is the "plan of heaven for humanity," which seemed to imply, in an echo from centuries past, that our form of government is divinely inspired.
He also called liberty "the design of nature," "the direction of history" and the "best hope for progress," arguing that it is America's ...
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