The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: The Speech Misheard Round the World
I'm not the only one who heard words "lightly spoken." This "pledge" to push and fight for "freedom," "liberty," "democracy" was so shallow and cynical that it is not to be believed. The United States--at least since the time of Ronald Reagan--has been more concerned with the spread of free-market capitalism and the fight against regulation and organized labor than it has been with the spread of freedom and the fight against tyranny and terrorism.
Bush's whole explanation of terror--that it comes from cultures that are intolerant rather than those that are oppressed and exploited--is just so silly. I can't understand why our media don't question craziness like this.
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