Posts Tagged ‘Ronald Reagan’

Friday, March 20th, 2009 at 7:33am

Where’s Vladimir?

Posted by Tom Skypek in American Foreign Policy, Russia

Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 4:53pm

Legendary Campaign Ads: “The Bear”

Posted by Tom Skypek in American Foreign Policy, Russia

Friday, July 25th, 2008 at 12:10pm

“Playing Innocent Abroad”

David Brooks’s column “Playing Innocent Abroad” in today’s New York Times provides a thoughtful analysis of Sen. Obama’s speech yesterday in Berlin. It decomposes Sen. Obama’s lofty rhetoric, placing his remarks in the proper context: reality.

When John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan went to Berlin, their rhetoric soared, but their optimism was grounded in the reality of politics, conflict and hard choices. Kennedy didn’t dream of the universal brotherhood of man. He drew lines that reflected hard realities: “There are some who say, in Europe and elsewhere, we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin.” Reagan didn’t call for a kumbaya moment. He cited tough policies that sparked harsh political disagreements —…

Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 4:20am

Krauthammer’s “The Audacity of Vanity”

Charles Krauthammer has written another brilliant piece–this time on Sen. Obama’s pervasive elitist and narcissistic tendencies. Krauthammer, a psychiatrist by trade, paints in interesting portrait of the first-term senator.  Sen. Obama’s desire to speak at the Brandenburg Gate is not entirely misguided. Speaking there will undoubtedly evoke images of great statesmen like Ronald Reagan, which could help to bolster his foreign policy credentials.  But Sen. Obama is not Ronald Reagan and a well orchestrated speech at a landmark where great men have made history will do little to enhance Sen. Obama’s foreign policy resume.  As Krauthammer notes, speaking at the Brandenburg gate is something to be earned; Obama clearly doesn’t understand this:

What Obama does not seem to understand is that the…

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