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Spreading liberty with a bayonet: long before the occupation of Iraq, Americans tried to free another country from its tyrannical government only to find out how hard it is to spread liberty with a bayonet.(HISTORY--PAST AND PERSPECTIVE)
The United States has embroiled much of the world in its War on Terror, occupied Iraq since 2003, and bombed Afghanistan--all to "spread liberty." Karl Rove alleged in 2006 that George W. Bush "is committed to something no past president has ever attempted: spreading liberty to the broader Middle East." Bush himself insisted last January that "our strategy is to spread liberty." Apparently, freedom spreads around as easily as peanut butter.
Or does it? Can one country impose liberty on another? Does freedom come at the point of a gun, sifting from the air with the debris of a bombed village? Or must people individually crave it, so badly they will fight and die ...
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