Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, July 06, 2009 2:02:59 AM
"President Obama has talked a lot, in the campaign and as President, of improving America's status in the world so that the force of our example and of our ideas can advance our interests. If President Obama believes what he says - if he believes in the power of American ideas - then this is his moment."
Newt Gingrich
Forget Negotiations, President Obama Seize the Moment
In 1983, Ronald Reagan used a word to describe the Soviet U-nion that some of his advisors who wanted engagement with the Soviets wished he wouldn't use. It will anger the Soviet leaders, they said. It will make negotiations impossible. But Reagan used the word anyway. He called the Soviet regime "evil." And the impact of that word changed history.
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