Rice promotes spread of freedom


By Nicholas Kralev
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, at her second swearing-in ceremony this week, said yesterday that the "absence of terrorism" is not enough to win the war on terror unless it is accompanied by spread of freedom.
    With President Bush by her side in the State Department's formal reception room, Miss Rice said that American diplomacy must be used "to help create a balance of power that favors freedom."
    "We do not simply seek the absence of terrorism," she said. "We seek a world where the aspirations for freedom of men and women triumph."