| Topic: |
Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Bill McCarty" |
| Date: |
20 Jan 2005 08:24:32 PM |
| Object: |
Impertinent Question # Twenty Seven |
News Item: Bush employs the word Freedom twenty seven times in his
inaugural address.
It's rather hard to argue against freedom or motherhood or apple pie.
But is the US in a credible position to insist that it has the right and
duty - much less the ability- to impose freedom on nations we perceive as
lacking it ? Forget our shabby history of reluctance to abandon the
practice of slavery. Forget our shabby history of being dragged kicking and
screaming into the era of civil rights for all. Forget our dreary practice
of assassination of public figures associated with struggles for freedom.
Forget the fact that Americans probably have less freedom now than
at any time in our history. We DO have a military budget larger than the
next twenty largest nations on earth COMBINED. But does that
qualify us as the ideal source for wisdom, truth and reason the subject of
freedom ? Or has Bush simply adopted the tired old prop underlying
world history for thousands of years: Might makes right ?
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