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To: ChicagoConservative27
Today, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) believes that neither the Pentagon nor Ukraine should be given a “blank check.” The political scientist Kenneth Janda reminds us in his new book, “The Republican Evolution,” that a party that once stood for freedom and order now “espouses incompatible principles and undemocratic politics.”

What utter nonsense. Reagan believed in intervening in other nations to free people from tyranny not as a means of producing revenue for our corrupt political class, its financial backers and the defense industry.

Neocon foreign policies have setoff civil wars, destabilized nations and resulted tens of thousands of deaths.

10 posted on 01/24/2023 2:31:10 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Kazan
Reagan believed in intervening in other nations to free people from tyranny

Reagan didn't intervene that much. He stopped a communist insurgency in El Salvador and assisted anti-communists in Nicaragua. No US combat troops were ever used. Lunatics like Dan Rather idiotically compared that to Vietnam. There was also the ill-fated deployment of a small number of marines in Beirut.

The biggest thing Reagan did was deploy hundreds of intermediate range ballistic missiles in Western Europe, over the hysterical objections of the left. It forced Gorbachev to agree to take down hundreds of IRBM's pointed at Western Europe. I don't think that counts as intervening. BTW, Putin began violating that agreement in the Obama years. Trump responded by withdrawing the US from the agreement.

11 posted on 01/26/2023 8:11:21 PM PST by lasereye ( )
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