June 22nd, 2009

Reagan didn’t hesitate to confront totalitarians and stand up for freedom

Posted in  Politics 
Author: Tom Giovanetti || Location: Lewisville, Texas, USA

For days I've been hearing about how it's important for the U.S. to not take a hardline on the revolution going on in Iran--that, because of the U.S.'s historic and difficult relationship with Iran, that we should not become a foil (to use President Obama's words) for the dictatorship.

It sounds reasonable and prudent--but let's remember that's NOT what Reagan did. We had a historically difficult relationship with the Soviet Union also, in case we've already forgotten. But Reagan didn't kowtow to the Soviet establishment. He spoke directly to the people who sought freedom in Poland, in Berlin, and in Reykjavik, and didn't refrain from siding with the repressed people out of fear of alienating their totalitarian masters.

And history has already demonstrated the results of the Reagan strategy.

I'm just sayin'.