Was Bush right to boast of America’s role in giving these countries their freedom? As he put it to the Kansas City veterans: “Will today’s generation of Americans resist the allure of retreat, and will we do in the Middle East what the veterans in this room did in Asia?”
但亚洲的日本、韩国和其它受到美国保护地区的成功故事又将做何解释？布什吹嘘美国带给这些国家自由究竟有没有道理？正如他对堪萨斯城老兵所说的那样：“今天的美国人能否抵御撤军的诱惑，我们是否会在中东做这里的老兵们曾经在亚洲做过的事情？”