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Article: The thinking man's hero and general from Maine.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
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- February 27, 2005
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Byline: Ilya Shapiro, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
January 2005 will go down as one of the greatest months for liberty since the "end of history" - when the Cold War's demise signaled that we were now all freedom-lovers. Though the Islamo-fascists did not get Francis Fukuyama's memo, they surely got the one delivered by President George W. Bush on January 20 and by the Iraqi people on January 30.
As breathtaking and important as these exercises and symbols of post-historicity were, however, there was something utterly unoriginal about them. Mr. Bush's soaring rhetoric resounded in the words and policies of many chief executives past: John Kennedy's ...