Freedom Tours

Fire of Liberty

Max Boot has a wonderful Op/Ed in the Los Angeles Times noting how important it is for members of the State Department as well as various academics to venture out into various college settings and nations throughout the world and present a whole-hearted argument on why democracy and freedom are great things to have and why they should be shared with the rest of the world. Though this will be a tough row to hoe in various colleges that are predominately soaked in the left-wing, anti-American nonsense that is very popular on Pacifica Radio and in the pages of The Nation as well as for the folks who live in nations run by various dictators who continue to rage against the US and restrict the Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness of it's citizens, it's not impossible.

One only has to look at the various events and tours promoting our values and love of freedom and democracy that occurred during the height of the Cold War to see that such efforts are for not. Just ask Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, Andrei Sakharov, Natan Sharansky and countless others who were spurred onward to free themselves from their communist masters. I can assure you that they truly appreciate this clarion call for democracy and freedom coming from the mouths of American representatives. Let's hope that these current and future listening/speaking tours will provide the same kindling for freedom and democracy that was so monumental during the Cold War.