A Balance of Power that Favors Freedom

President Bush's new National Security Strategy offers a bold vision for protecting our nation that captures today's new realities and new opportunities. It calls on America to use our position of unparalleled strength and influence to create a balance of power that favors freedom. As the president says in the cover letter: we seek to create the 'conditions in which all nations and all societies can choose for themselves the rewards and challenges of political and economic liberty'. Read on. (US National Security Strategy: A New Era, December 2002)