The National Security Strategy of the United States, published on September 17, 2002, “commits the United States to ‘champion the cause of human dignity and oppose those who resist it’ by creating ‘a balance of power that favors human freedom: conditions in which all nations and all societies can choose for themselves the rewards and challenges of political and economic liberty.’ ”
– Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 95