What do YOU think Dilip :-)?
At 6:04 AM -0800 11/10/03, D Deka wrote: >Is there anyone here who believes this columnist's interpretation? Let's >hear. Dilip > >The Age of Liberty > >By WILLIAM SAFIRE > >Published: November 10, 2003 > > > > ARTICLE TOOLS ><http://ea.nytimes.com/cgi-bin/email?th=&REFURI=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/ >11/10/opinion/10SAFI.html><http://ea.nytimes.com/cgi-bin/email?REFURI=http://www >.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/opinion/10SAFI.html&position=> ><http://ea.nytimes.com/cgi-bin/email?th=&REFURI=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/ >11/10/opinion/10SAFI.html><http://ea.nytimes.com/cgi-bin/email?REFURI=http://www >.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/opinion/10SAFI.html&position=>E-Mail This >Article ><http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/opinion/10SAFI.html?th=&pagewanted=print&; >amp;position=> ><http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/opinion/10SAFI.html?th=&pagewanted=print&; >amp;position=>Printer-Friendly Format ><http://www.nytimes.com/gst/pop_top.html> ><http://www.nytimes.com/gst/pop_top.html>Most E-Mailed Articles ><http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/opinion/10SAFI.html?th=&pagewanted=all&am >p;position=> ><http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/opinion/10SAFI.html?th=&pagewanted=all&am >p;position=> > > ><http://www.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/williamsaf >ire/>Columnist Page: William Safire > ><http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?50@@.f2e3285>Forum: Discuss This >Column > ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > RELATED > > Text: In Bush's Words: 'Iraqi Democracy Will Succeed' (November 6, 2003) > > TIMES NEWS TRACKER > > Topics >Alerts ><http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=per&v1=BUSH%2C+GEORGE+W&fdq= >19960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=BUSH%2C+GEORGE+W&rt=1%2Cdes%2 >Corg%2Cper%2Cgeo>Bush, George W > > > ><http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=des&v1=UNITED+STATES+INTERNATION >AL+RELATIONS&fdq=19960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=UNITED+STATE >S+INTERNATIONAL+RELATIONS&rt=1%2Cdes%2Corg%2Cper%2Cgeo>United States >International Relations > > > > > >EW ORLEANS > > > >With a strong sense of history, George W. Bush last week made the case for >"a forward strategy" of idealism in American foreign policy. He dared to >place his Big Idea � what has become the central theme and purpose of his >presidency � in the direct line of aspirations expressed by three of the >past century's most far-seeing and controversial U.S. presidents. > > > >He evoked Woodrow Wilson trying to make the world safe for democracy in >1918; then F.D.R. in 1941 giving hope of freedom to peoples enslaved by >Nazism; finally, Ronald Reagan telling a skeptical Britain's Parliament in >1982 that a historic turning point had been reached and Communist tyranny >could not stop the march of freedom. "From the Fourteen Points to the Four >Freedoms, to the Speech at Westminster, America has put our power at the >service of principle," Bush said. "The advance of freedom is the calling >of our time." > > > >That is called a theme. Did he develop that theme in his speech, >marshaling his arguments both rationally and evocatively at a time of >crisis? Did he succeed in setting his vision of our mission in the world >before the American people in a detailed, coherent and inspiring way >worthy of rallying their support? > > > >I think he did � not only because I agree that protecting and extending >freedom has always been America's "calling," but because I was able to >read and re-read the serious speech in its entirety. > > > >You have probably not had that opportunity. Most people did not have the >chance to catch the whole speech on cable, and found only snippets on >broadcast TV; the longest excerpt of the half-hour address ran less than >four minutes on prime-time network news. > > > >Some newspapers front-paged accounts of the news in the speech, noting >departure from the realpolitik of Nixon, the elder Bush and others: "Sixty >years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in >the Middle East did nothing to make us safe � because in the long run, >stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty." But not even The >Times gave readers the chance to study the full text in the paper. (It's >on the Times Web site at >www.nytimes.com/2003/11/06/politics/06TEXT-BUSH.html.) > > > >This speech clearly articulated the policy this Bush will be remembered >for. If you are interested in knowing where he wants to take this country >and why, you will find it worth reading all the way through. Reading >summaries and excerpts and critiques lets editors and analysts do the >thinking for you. Film snippets of applause lines won't help you grasp the >import, which you should have even if you want to disagree knowledgeably. >A carefully constructed speech, like a poem or a brief or a piece of >music, has a shape that helps makes it memorable. Bush's "age of liberty" >address begins on a note of historical optimism: "We've witnessed, in >little over a generation, the swiftest advance of freedom in the >2,500-year story of democracy . . . It is no accident that the rise of so >many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential >nation was itself a democracy." (He chose "influential" rather than >"powerful" to stress our democratic example.) > > > >Then he takes us on a tour d'horizon of the state of freedom today: from >"outposts of oppression" like Cuba, Burma, North Korea and Zimbabwe to >China with its "sliver, a fragment of liberty," to the West Bank leaders >who are "the main obstacles to peace." Egypt, having "shown the way toward >peace" (under Sadat) "now should show the way toward democracy." > > > >He returns to his opening theme in dealing with Iraq, where failure "would >embolden terrorists around the world," but where "a free Iraq in the heart >of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic >revolution." (Failure gets the conditional "would," but success the >certain "will.") > > > >But let me not join the summarizers. Invest a half-hour in reading this >moving exposition of the noble goal of American foreign policy. And note >the subtlety in Bush's concluding reference to the deity in underscoring >our opportunity in this age of liberty: "And as we meet the terror and >violence of the world, we can be certain the author of freedom is not >indifferent to the fate of freedom." > > > Do you Yahoo!? > <http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree>Protect your identity with Yahoo! >Mail AddressGuard _______________________________________________ >Assam mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam > >To unsubscribe or change options: >http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/options/assam _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam To unsubscribe or change options: http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/options/assam
