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Wednesday, 9th May 2007

Ronald Reagan - one of the truly great political figures of the twentieth century - remains ridiculously underrated by chattering class opinion. More fool them. This post by Brian Mickelthwait has a terrific quote from John O'Sullivan's new book, The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister (which I am looking forward to reading). The quote is from Reagan talking to Richard Allen (soon to become his foreign policy adviser) in 1977:



At the end of the meeting, as Allen got up to leave, Reagan said something that, as Allen wrote later, “literally changed my life”.  Reagan offered Allen his theory of the Cold War.  He acknowledged that many people thought his views simplistic but said, “My theory of the Cold War is that we win and they lose."



Oh for a leader of Reagan's clarity, vision and leadership today, at a time when we face another battle, for the survival of Western civilisation. The nearest we have lives on the other side of the world.

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StuartA

May 10th, 2007 4:59pm

Tragically underrated, yes. I suppose these narrow minded members of the "chattering class" simply can't see past the illegal war in Nicaragua that he just couldn't remember, or his alleged liberation of Auschwitz from a film studio in California, or his hymning of apartheid South Africa, or his enthusiasm for the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, or his prompt scuttling from there when casualties arose. Oh for his Alzheimer clarity, his vision of Central American death squads, his leadership role in gun running to Iranian theocrats.

Ian Deans

May 11th, 2007 4:38am

What a nice thing to say about Mr Howard. Sometimes I think we take him a bit for granted here in Australia

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