A New Axis Of Evil
Chile, Vietnam, El Salvador, Korea, West Germany, Egypt, Afghanistan, Cuba, the local (bugged) CPUSA office, and so on, throughout the world, mission accomplished.
The USSR is dead.
Here's why:
"The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written."That's what the Cold War was about, defeating the Soviet Union. If you don't understand this, you don't understand today. Sadly, history is being written by fools who deny it, who believe that in Vietnam we lost a war, that in El Salvador we fought an unjust and cruel war, etc. They were all battles of a larger war. This simple, so very simple insight is like a bright, morning sun.
-Ronald Reagan"It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history.... [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism- Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people."
-Ronald Reagan
Cold War alignments yet define the world. The mid-east is just another casaulty in the larger war against the Soviets.
For more Reagan here: Ronald Reagan: A real leader with a real legacy