Freedom’s On The March?

Once it became clear the Bush administration’s original, loudly trumpeted, and wildly over-hyped rationale for invading Iraq four and a half years ago was a total fabrication, the President himself and every other enabler and apologist for the idea that the United States ought to — indeed, is destined to — exercise hegemony over the entire planet — all — have relied on one, or both, of two arguments to explain the expense of lives and treasure, and excuse the rising instability and danger that have been the consequences of that ill-fated decision:

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