American Views Abroad

 
Michael Carmichael's essay Won't Get Fooled Again/Independence Day starts off on how Bush has become a deeply unpopular President. He points out how an ultra-conservative Republican congressman in North Carolina has seen the handwriting on the wall and has joined together with Democrats to sponsor legislation to start withdrawing US troops in Iraq in October 2006. Of course, this is a month before over 133,000 military voters cast their ballots in that state. He further discusses the Live 8 concert and Bush's adamant rejection of changing his policy on African poverty and global warming. Most interesting is his reading of the original Fourth of July in 1776 when the outcome was far from certain, but the cause was just and Jefferson on the spread of democracy by reason not by warfare. John Quincy Adams later wrote 'America should not go abroad seeking out monsters to destroy, lest she become dictatress of the world.'
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