[Mb-civic] A Democratic World Is No Neocon Folly

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A Democratic World Is No Neocon Folly 
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The facts are in: Freedom is better.

Max Boot

September 16 2004

"The world must be made safe for democracy," Woodrow Wilson declared in 1917. Ever since (and arguably before), that imperative has occupied a central place in U.S. foreign policy. Democratic and Republican presidents alike have seen the need to spread liberty abroad to protect liberty at home. 

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