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No Lack of Vision Thing

Mona Charen [1] apparently agrees with my take [2]on President Bush’s speech on Thursday.:

Impossibly grandiose? Impractical? Wilsonian? Perhaps. And yet, the president made clear in a speech that was also an argument that his is no ivory-tower idealism. “America’s vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one.” We are faced with a world made frighteningly smaller by modern technology. Our enemies, nurtured in the bitter backwaters of repression and religious bigotry, can do incalculable harm with modern weapons. And though we may prepare, we cannot possibly defend ourselves against every terrorist with a grudge.

Freedom, the president argues, is the only solution to this grim threat. The more places liberty takes root, the safer the world, and we ourselves will be.

This kind of thing is exactly why she’s on my “must read” list.