” ‘[T]his is a period not just of grave danger, but of enormous opportunity,’ says [National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice [in a speech to Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies on April 29, 2002]. ‘…a period akin to 1945 to 1947, when American leadership expanded the number of free and democratic states–Japan and Germany among the great powers–to create a new balance of power that favored freedom.’ ”
– Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 113