Excerpt from Tony’s Blair’s speech to the U.S. Congress yesterday:
“The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack. And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify around an idea. And that idea is liberty. (Applause.) We must find the strength to fight for this idea and the compassion to make it universal. Abraham Lincoln said, “Those that deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” And it is this sense of justice that makes moral the love of liberty.”
That’s a lot of idealism for one paragraph. Is Tony Blair really just pushing the same supernatural claptrap as the Pope with a different spin (e.g. just substitute ‘Christ’s love’ for ‘freedom’ and ‘salvation through Christ’ for ‘liberty’ above)? What is “liberty” in a material world?
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