Second-term George, as his father now calls him, inspires little confidence outside Republican and neo-conservative circles. Pledges of spreading liberty and freedom work well on inauguration day but are much more difficult to implement, as the conflict in Iraq has shown.
While few can argue with the statement: “The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world”, the core issue revolves around how the US, the sole superpower, relates to the rest of the world. And this is more than a military issue.
