When Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire" in 1983, he was articulating in the boldest terms what had always been an American understanding. The Kremlin had long been fomenting communist revolution the world over, and we had long pursued our policy of "containment."
Thus
did we fight wars in Korea and Vietnam, facilitate coups d'état against
people such as Salvador Allende and support anti-communist rebels such
as the mujahedeen in Afghanistan. Of course, plans didn't always come
together. There was the Bay of Pigs debacle, and the covert Iran-Contra
operation getting front-page exposure. The "police action" in Korea
ended in a stalemate and Vietnam just became stale, losing the public
and political support necessary for victory.
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Guest Piece: The Wages of Appeasemennt
The world has known for many years that the wages of appeasement are the loss of moral high ground to monstrous villains. During the Cold War, although America usually kept its military power adequate to deter Soviet aggression, the American Left (and European Left) blithely pretended that a regime which conspired with Adolph Hitler to start the Second World War, which instructed the Nazis about how to create massive camps in which millions of souls could perish – as millions had before the Nazis even came to power in Germany – and which preached as doctrine that any lie, any crime, any vice which advanced the cause of communism was morally on the same plane as America and the West.
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