Posted on 07/16/2018 6:12:29 PM PDT by EdnaMode
To Ronald Reagan and his entourage, the summit meeting in Iceland looked like the perfect photo opportunity. Three weeks before the midterm elections, Reagan would be pictured shaking hands with the smiling Russian in his Fifties fedora. The president would be portrayed in the media as an earnest peacemaker, diligently searching for ways to end the nuclear-arms race.
This time, though, the photos turned out badly. When he emerged from his bargaining sessions with Mikhail Gorbachev, the president looked stung, like a small boy who had burned his fingers playing with a light socket. Reagan came home empty-handed from Iceland, and for once he was wearing the black hat the man who said no to a historic opportunity. Confronted by the chance to become a genuine peacemaker, the president retreated in confusion. His image-makers had been overwhelmed by reality.
The Russians are still klutzy at public relations, but this Gorbachev plays a shrewd game of poker and he won big at Reykjavik. The Soviet leader kept upping the ante, offering real concessions toward arms reductions, and the president, surprised and unprepared, played along. Lets eliminate all of the medium-range nukes in Europe, Gorbachev suggested. Okay. How about a test-ban treaty? Sure, we can work it out. Lets both agree to dismantle half of our long-range nuclear missiles over the next ten years. Done, said the president. Then the Gipper got so carried away, he tried to top Gorby. Lets eliminate all of our nukes, he proposed. Why not? asked the smiling Russian.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Greider used to be a correspondent for the Washington Post. Over the years he has become a fixture in the “socialist” media melieu and at some conferences.
This has happened to several key WP foreign correspondents to, sadly including Peter Osnos, Glen Frankel, Sandinista-lover Karen De Young (still the foreign editor of the WP), I think H.D. Greenway has gone to the far left, and another of their Moscow correspondents.
That would explain a lot of things about the far-left orientation of the WP.
Thanks. Jack Posobiec tweeted about it earlier tonight. That really puts the left’s reaction in perspective.
hahahahahahahahaha. bummer how the truth was just like right there in front of him and he disdained it to support the establishment perspective.
Gorbachov went back to his country realizing that Reagan was not going to budge, that he was going to keep on building up American defenses, including SDI, to a point where the Soviets would not be able to keep up. He knew that they were doomed.
So, Reagan did not "flub" anything. He instead broke the back of the Cold War.
What I saw in 1986 of the news media dancing gleefully over Reagan’s `failure’ in his meeting with Gorbachev in Reykjavik in 1986 versus Trump’s meeting with Putin in Helsinki yesterday was one of degree only. They are even more unhinged now.
The Soviet collapse was started at Reykjavik when the first "American" in almost a century had the balls to stand up to the commie scum...Despite the heavily communist-infiltrated State Dept...
The Soviet collapse was started at Reykjavik when the first "American" in almost a century had the balls to stand up to the commie scum...Despite the heavily communist-infiltrated State Dept...
bmp
How are the media and their bosses so stupid? Dont they see this is the same?
Lots of folks are terrified of what Putin might have told Trump during the private meeting.......would be sweet irony if they collude” and it ends up taking down the Deep State and drains the Swamp...
Many sane peop/le knew it at the time. But the media as usual got it about 180 degrees wrong.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.