During the 2012 presidential debates,
Obama scorned Mitt Romney for having identified Russia as one of America’s
geo-political adversaries: “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign
policy back, because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.” Obama used to be a
funny man, or at least the guy who wrote his one-liners was. But the joke is
over and America needs a new Ronald Reagan more urgently than ever. His resolve
in the 1980s to station Cruise and Pershing II missiles in the Federal Republic of Germany put
paid to Brezhnev’s SS-20 prospective game-changer. A few years later Mikhail
Gorbachev was signing off on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF
Treaty) and all but conceding defeat in the Cold War. That’s how fast things
can move when you have the absolutely right – or totally wrong – person pulling
the levers of power.
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