I’m on a huge Reagan kick lately, and I am finding myself more and more wishing that we had a President, Senator, Governor, or any politician like Reagan again. It doesn’t comfort me that the closest comparison that we have to Reagan these days is the Governator in California.
What it is, for me anyway, that highlights Reagan is his Hawk Foreign Policy that nobody has matched since or before. These days, should Obama proclaim that North Korea was an evil state, he have a dozen civil rights groups after him for a Public Apology, Reagan did it to the Soviet Union and it ended a half of decade of turmoil. He told the Russian Priemer to tear down the Berlin Wall, and it was teared down.
People try to say, I should say that Liberals try to say, that Republicans have some thirst for war and they try to point to Reagan’s aggressive policy as proof. What they happen to leave out is the amount of disarmament that Reagan oversaw. He and Gorbachev met in Switzerland, Iceland, Moscow, and Washington and worked out more than just economics and the Berlin issue, they got rid of certain bombs and regulated the military. Did the military grow under Reagan? Absolutely, but what makes that the worst thing to certain liberal, I will never understand.
For forty years the Soviets hated us and this hawk, Reagan, goes to Moscow and is treated like a celebrity. He gave speeches on the beauty of Capitalism, something that even our country truly lacks anymore, and he inspired Perestroika and Glasnost, which proved extremely effective in Russia, and pretty much ended Communism there. This was something that Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter couldn’t do and Reagan did it with ease. While he altered one of our biggest enemies in the twentieth century, he also lowered taxes, boomed the economy, and brought patriotism back to our country. Reagan was a true patriotic American and that hasn’t been matched by Bush, Clinton, Bush, and especially not Obama who apologizes for us on a regular basis. I sure as hell like a President who thinks he’s in charge of the good guys, because we all have some of that in side of us.
Let’s say today Obama sensed that North Korea was a major nuclear threat (hint hint they are) what would he do about it? Reagan would denounce them, speak against them, threaten them with newer technology (STI?) He would talk to their leaders, but not compromise with them. He would win. Obama today apologizes for our actions, he tries to compromise with people that we can’t compromise with, and he avoids confrontation only to put off worse confrontation upon the next generation. Obama appeases like Neville Chamberlain, appeasement wasn’t in Reagan’s book of Foreign Policy.
There would be a lot less problems in this Globalized world if we had another Ronald Reagan sitting in the Oval Office.
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