Two Freedoms

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Hugh Segal. Two Freedoms

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

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Acknowledgements

Notes

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Copyright

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In the end, a rational world view is about preserving what matters most and what is best in one’s history and society and avoiding those changes and “innovations” that are hollow, destructive, or wasteful. The most likely source of unconstructive and often destructive change is the kind of violence that fear empowers, the kind of violence that is driven in explosive ways by both fear and the despair of want. Confronting fear and want by entrenching freedom from both as the centrepiece of a more engaged national and global order has never mattered more. From the Middle East to the South China Sea, from South and Central America to North Africa, from South Asia to the Caucasus, the balance between order and freedom will become more and more unsustainable unless the forces of fear and drivers of want are addressed.

This is not an abstract mission; it is one that must go beyond nobility, high intent, and fuzzy purpose. This is an explicit battle for national and global security, one that demands an all-out war on fear and want of the same depth and breadth as the one that has been waged on terrorism since 9/11 recently, or as was deployed in the defence of the West against the totalitarian Soviet empire of 1945–1985.

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