Address lays groundwork for global freedom mission (but CATO objects)

[papau]

So the Cato Institute says Bush's call for a more activist military role in the world is 'dangerous, eloquent nonsense,' rejecting the implication in the president's remarks 'that anyone's lack of liberty threatens us,""..... interesting
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050121-122815-4709r.htm

Address lays groundwork for global freedom mission


By Donald Lambro
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


President Bush's inaugural address sends the United States on a new, expansionist and far more aggressive global mission to free oppressed countries from dictators — a sharp departure from his 2000 campaign that warned against becoming the world's policemen.

In a 21-minute speech to the nation and the world aimed at defining and focusing the second term of his presidency, Mr. Bush devoted the major portion of his address to advancing "the cause of freedom" through a much more muscular foreign and national security policy that seeks to topple "the rulers of outlaw regimes."

The president's rhetoric did not go as far as the pre-Vietnam War pledge in President Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address to "pay any price, bear any burden" to advance liberty throughout the world. But Mr. Bush did lay out an ambitious, perhaps unprecedented internationalist doctrine that could deploy U.S. military power far beyond America's present commitments to turn once-oppressive Afghanistan and Iraq into peaceful and free democracies.

Mr. Bush said that it is now "the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world." <snip>

[tom_paine]

1. I seem to recall that ole Adolf ALSO had a "Global Freedom Initiative"

At least, that's what he and his Totalitarian Media Mouthpieces maintained.

Some things never change, do they?