Free Republic

President Bush's inaugural address has reignited the most basic of foreign policy debates; should American foreign policy include efforts to change the nature of foreign governments? President Bush clearly thinks that the answer to this question is yes, "The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands".   Condoleeza Rice, Bush's Secretary of State nominee, expressed this idea in a more diplomatic manner during her Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing, "We must use American diplomacy to help create a balance of power in the world that favors freedom". Though clearly in line...