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Foreign Policy as Social Work

by Mona Charen

In 1980, after Soviet tanks rumbled into Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter experienced an epiphany. The former Georgia governor, who in 1977 liberated the U.S. from its "inordinate fear of communism" and pecked Brezhnev on both cheeks, declaring that he and the Soviet leader "shared similar dreams and aspirations," was shocked by this naked aggression. "... The action of the Soviets," he admitted, "made a more dramatic change in my opinion of what the Sovi ...

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Posted by: Pericles
Comment: #1
Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:16 PM

From the article: "Accordingly, Obama signaled in his inaugural address a new benign approach to Iran. " This is in comparison to Reagan (along with Oliver North) who sold weapons to Iran and Bush who handed the Iraqi government over to Iran. Right-wingers do more than appease Iran....They provide weapons and let them dominate the region in ways they'd only dreamed of.

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