by Richard Gwyn

Toronto Star [Canada]

01/25/05

In his inauguration speech last week, Bush told the world what he intends to do during his last term. Essentially, he intends to make the world like the U.S. Or, more exactly, like Bush's version of the U.S. After all, outside critics, while applauding his use of the word 'freedom' and its synonym 'liberty' 41 times in a brief speech, might wonder how much freedom and liberty there is to the unknowns incarcerated without trial in Guantanamo, or was to the prisoners in Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail, or to the Americans shorn of civil liberties by Bush's Patriot Act. This is the boldest, most visionary and most ambitious, but also the most hubristic and vainglorious foreign policy program ever enunciated by an American president. Even World War I leader Woodrow Wilson only wanted to remake Europe..

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