Ronald Reagan, 1985:
just a random saturday night thought as i watch the excellent pbs documentary frontline: the choice 2004 and nurse a sore throat.
how is the distinction so clear between the "freedom fighters" (the Contras) of nicaragua that reagan so outlandishly praised, and the "insurgents" of iraq? can america not be a target of "freedom fighters" since we spread freedom by our own definition?They are our brothers, these freedom fighters, and we owe them our help. I've spoken recently of the freedom fighters of Nicaragua. You know the truth about them. You know who they re fighting and why. They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong.
just a random saturday night thought as i watch the excellent pbs documentary frontline: the choice 2004 and nurse a sore throat.