Anthony R. Dolan: The Power of Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech - WSJ.com »

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Former Reagan speechwriter Anthony Dolar writes in The Wall Street Journal about the struggle in Washington over Ronald Regan's desire to keep four little words in his Berlin speech: Tear down this wall. The president deliberately confronted the Soviets and all criminal regimes with what they fear most: the publicly spoken truth about their moral weakness.

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    FairNBalanced3 weeks, 1 day ago

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    The current administration, most recently with overtures to Iran's rulers and the Burmese generals, has consistently demonstrated that all its impulses are the opposite of Reagan's. Critics who are worried about the costs of economic policies adopted in the last 10 months might consider as well the impact of the administration's systematic accommodation of criminal regimes and the failure to understand what "good vs. evil" rhetoric can do.

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      Wolfie20073 weeks, 1 day ago

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      You are so right Cat Obama is putting us in a really bad position at home economically and abroad with his appeasement policies.

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        NoWayMan3 weeks, 1 day ago

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        what a fantasy for the conservative depends-wearing crowd.

        as if reagan's words did the trick. thats too funny.

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          Klarissa3 weeks, 1 day ago

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          Obama doesn't stand for anything himself - as he said, he is a blank slate.

          However, his handlers know how to use him to their advantage.

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          vvv63vvv3 weeks, 1 day ago

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          repugs are completely blind to how transparent their extreme exaggerations are

          they continually dig themselves deeper into the hole of people not taking anything they say seriously

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            vvv63vvv3 weeks, 1 day ago

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            the much more plausible argument was that the soviets could not keep up with massive military spending of reagan

            looks like the soviet union was far more fiscally conservative than reagan to match the unprecedented deficit reagan ran up

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              Wolfie20073 weeks, 1 day ago

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              vvv63

              By the way I ignore idiots.

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