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1. Lest any conclude that this thread is too....Manichean....let's see the response of the Left/Liberals to this:
a. In 1982, in his speech to the British parliament, he predicted that communism was destined to be shortly 'on the ash-heap of history.'
b. In his 1983 speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, he described the Soviet Union as 'an evil empire.'
2. The left was apoplectic in the face of such a clear definition of the Soviet Union.
a. Henry Steel Commager: “…the worst presidential speech in American history,…No other presidential speech has ever so flagrantly allied the government with religion.”
b. “… Reagan's "red-baiting" and "bellicose" rhetoric, as it was branded in the press, elicited widespread disapproval from the pundits. Then-New Republic editor Hendrik Hertzberg told The Washington Post that "words like that frighten the American public and antagonize the Soviets," condemning the speech as "not presidential." Reagan: On the right side of history
c. Lest one think that Reagan’s stance was the same as previous President’s, consider this from Seweryn Bialer of Columbia University:
Sovietologist Seweryn Bialer of Columbia University reported: “…such language stunned and humiliated the Soviet leaders . . . [who] believe that President Reagan is determined to deny the Soviet Union nothing less than its legitimacy and status as a global power . . . status . . . they thought had been conceded once and for all by Reagan's predecessors.”
Seweryn Bialer, "Danger in Moscow", the New York Review of Books, February 16, 1984.
What's the correct term to use for those who support and apologize for evil?
3. Reagan’s rhetoric disturbed the left because it made the moral case for anticommunism; liberals thought they had convinced everyone who mattered that anticommunism was the thing to be feared.
Why? Fear! After all, communism was certainly not worse than nuclear war, after all, ‘better Red than dead,’ right? Let’s not antagonize the collectivists.
And, so....we find Ronald Reagan subjected to the same sort of lies and contumely as an earlier American hero.....
...Senator Joseph McCarthy.
a. In 1982, in his speech to the British parliament, he predicted that communism was destined to be shortly 'on the ash-heap of history.'
b. In his 1983 speech to the National Association of Evangelicals, he described the Soviet Union as 'an evil empire.'
2. The left was apoplectic in the face of such a clear definition of the Soviet Union.
a. Henry Steel Commager: “…the worst presidential speech in American history,…No other presidential speech has ever so flagrantly allied the government with religion.”
b. “… Reagan's "red-baiting" and "bellicose" rhetoric, as it was branded in the press, elicited widespread disapproval from the pundits. Then-New Republic editor Hendrik Hertzberg told The Washington Post that "words like that frighten the American public and antagonize the Soviets," condemning the speech as "not presidential." Reagan: On the right side of history
c. Lest one think that Reagan’s stance was the same as previous President’s, consider this from Seweryn Bialer of Columbia University:
Sovietologist Seweryn Bialer of Columbia University reported: “…such language stunned and humiliated the Soviet leaders . . . [who] believe that President Reagan is determined to deny the Soviet Union nothing less than its legitimacy and status as a global power . . . status . . . they thought had been conceded once and for all by Reagan's predecessors.”
Seweryn Bialer, "Danger in Moscow", the New York Review of Books, February 16, 1984.
What's the correct term to use for those who support and apologize for evil?
3. Reagan’s rhetoric disturbed the left because it made the moral case for anticommunism; liberals thought they had convinced everyone who mattered that anticommunism was the thing to be feared.
Why? Fear! After all, communism was certainly not worse than nuclear war, after all, ‘better Red than dead,’ right? Let’s not antagonize the collectivists.
And, so....we find Ronald Reagan subjected to the same sort of lies and contumely as an earlier American hero.....
...Senator Joseph McCarthy.
