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National Interests and American Purpose |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--AN AGENDA FOR THE NEW ADMINISTRATION |
| Author: George Weigel |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,565 Words, 15,820 Characters |
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Even by traditional American standards, the 1992 presidential campaign was singularly mute on issues of foreign policy. And yet President Clinton will face, over the next four years, a world that has been dramatically, dangerously, and, just perhaps, hopefully transformed in the 1980s. The Fifty-five Years' War against totalitarianism has been won (Chinese communist gerontocrats notwithstanding). Moreover, that victory was a decisive vindication of the West and its commitment to human freedom. No amount of spin doctoring by Mikhail Gorbachev or squadrons of American "Sovietologists" can change the basic facts of the matter: European communism did not just "wither away"; it was defeated, orally and politically, by the West in coalition with the brave of central and eastern Europe. That de...
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...that is commensurate with the realities of our recent victory in the Fifty-five Years' War and the responsibilities that victory had laid upon us. If our people are turning away from the world, it may well be because they sense that an extraordinary opportunity to shape a world order more reflective of mankind's nobler instincts is being botched. It is time for a return to the vision thing.
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