Bush’s Strategy, Assessed

N AT I O N A L R E V I E W/S E P T E M B E R 26, 2005

In both the National Security Strategy and, more dramatically, his second inaugural address, President Bush made the extension of freedom and democracy to other countries the linchpin of U.S. security. It is not mere rhetoric, as it has often been in the past, but considered by the president the practical mechanism by which America can best guarantee its long-term security in the world.