by Justin Raimondo

The American Conservative

Bush's peroration was suffused with fire, it burned with the steely-eyed fanaticism of the ideologues who forged it, full of phrases that soared so far above the real world that a good many listeners had trouble believing their ears. Does the president seriously believe 'the survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands?' Surely he didn't really mean to explain away the exponential expansion of big government in America as due to the lack of civil liberties in, say, the former Soviet Union or the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia?

The war-weary wondered, at home and abroad, as they listened to the most powerful man on earth enunciate his militant doctrine: what new conflict will erupt as a result of a crusade to accelerate 'the expansion of freedom in all the world?'" (for publication 02/28/05)

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_02_28/article.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp