When reaching out and touching someone is only 22 minutes away, as the missle flies, I'd say we were already involved in foreign intrigues. No choice....
If you're going to spread anything in the world, freedom and democracy under law is pretty good compared to some of the stuff I've seen spread worldwide.
It's a world of competition in ideas as well as other more tangible things. America should compete, IMHO.
Well, first of all, Mr. Bush used the term "freedom," in at least six different senses in the debate. Some of those were contradictory. So before you spread something, had you not better first define it?
Of course, you know, there is little new about Mr. Bush's proposal. Aggressively spreading Democracy in the Third World was the foreign policy of the United States under Dean Rusk (1961-1969). The casualties from that policy were spread all over the African Continent. Ask some of the Ibo tribesmen in Nigeria, or Tshombe's people in Katanga, about the benefits. Or ask the Rhodesians, about that policy's later "success," in 1976-1980, in transforming the food exporting land of bounty into Zimbabwe.
It is a foolish proposal, at best.