Posted on 06/13/2009 9:58:45 AM PDT by Starman417
Contrast this speech that actually changed the world for the better with Obama's Muslim apology speech!
[video at site]
The entire address is worth listening to. But if your time is limited cue to 11:15 on the clip for the segment which contains the famous phrase "Mr. Gorbachev TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!"
Last year, I posted on the background that lead to Reagan's demand. Ending the Cold War and removing the last scar left on post World War II Europe was a goal of Ronald Reagan's for decades.
Many of Reagan's advisors, including then National Security Advisor Colin Powell, thought the line "tear down this wall" was too strong and tried to get it removed. But Reagan insisted. Contrast Reagan's vision for a better, more peaceful world which he outlined in the Berlin Wall speech with Obama's address in Cairo. Reagan didn't spend half his speech apologizing for the United States or making absurd moral equivalence comparisons.
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