ABSTRACT
America is no ordinary country and the circumstances of its creation have imprinted a guiding destiny upon successive generations of leaders. Hannah Arendt observed that ordinary countries have emerged from the mists of time and tradition, America however was a product of a compact between free people recorded and sanctified in recent history. America was the product of an act of free choice which bound and committed later generations for as long as they call themselves American.1 Ordinary countries are bound by ethnicity, common culture, religion or values that have been handed down from long-forgotten ancestors. As an ethnically diverse immigrant community America, however, is bound by the principles enshrined at its creation and the common experiences so derived. In this sense America is a crusading ideology, a platform for the promotion of the message of human freedom against tyranny and arbitrary rule.2 The principle of freedom is the Republic’s guiding principle, in domestic politics as well as foreign policy, and no American leader or public figure can survive or retain credibility without its invocation. In American politics and foreign policy freedom, as a principle, is a powerful mobilising force which will identify aims and goals, separate friends from enemies and justify commitment and action. With this principle America could sustain the commitment against communism and could triumph over its powerful Soviet adversary.
