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THE of according democracy GLOBAL to the has promotion Bush emerged, Ad-of democracy has emerged, according to the Bush Ad-ministration, as the defining mission of contemporary American foreign policy. Speaking in lofty and eloquent tones in his second Inaugural Address, Bush insisted that it would henceforth be" the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world." Insisting that" America's vital inter-ests and deepest beliefs are now one", the president claims that the expansion of freedom is the imperative of Ameri-ca's security, indispensable to the survival of liberty at home and the achievement of world peace. The deepest source of the vulnerability revealed on 9/11 is that" whole regions of the world simmer in resentment and tyranny-prone to ideologies that feed hatred …