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- Title: Good Times in the History of Freedom (Commentaries: The World at Large: War, Terror, Freedom)
- Author : Arena Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 184 KB
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As the first phase of the Iraqi campaign drew to its end, George W. Bush declared: 'These are good times in the history of freedom'. His supporters agreed. All around the globe triumphal declarations of victory were accompanied by a pouring of scorn upon those who opposed the war, as though their opposition hinged around the speed of that first phase. The need to defend freedom against those who threaten it and the evangelizing need to introduce freedom to those lacking it, were major justifications of the campaign. One way of thinking about this assertion of freedom as a way of life is to reflect on its use as a form of justification. A simple example was the childish conflation of evangelizing freedom with the interests of the United States, say in respect of oil. But if this kind of simplistic ideological usage is to be expected, the manipulation of fears about weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as a threat to freedom has been an example of a different order. It may well deserve to be treated as a new form of war crime.