RIP, Gorby. And while recognizing his "providential sense of purpose," can we at least admit it emerged only after Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II showed THEIR "unwillingness to bend" to HIM? See, e.g., their refusal to abandon Lech Walesa and his trade unionists in JPII's Poland; Reagan's walk-out in Reykjavic …
RIP, Gorby. And while recognizing his "providential sense of purpose," can we at least admit it emerged only after Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II showed THEIR "unwillingness to bend" to HIM? See, e.g., their refusal to abandon Lech Walesa and his trade unionists in JPII's Poland; Reagan's walk-out in Reykjavic over Gorby's insistence that the U.S. shut down its missile shield system (which today's leftists were then dismissing as "Star Wars"); and their unyielding support for freedom in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Albania, Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. So sure: "we should celebrate" the fact that Gorby did in the end "get it 100% right" -- he did finally "Take down this wall!" But let's also give a hat tip to the man who demanded he do so -- and to both the Iron Lady and the Saint who backed that demand to the hilt.
RIP, Gorby. And while recognizing his "providential sense of purpose," can we at least admit it emerged only after Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II showed THEIR "unwillingness to bend" to HIM? See, e.g., their refusal to abandon Lech Walesa and his trade unionists in JPII's Poland; Reagan's walk-out in Reykjavic over Gorby's insistence that the U.S. shut down its missile shield system (which today's leftists were then dismissing as "Star Wars"); and their unyielding support for freedom in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Albania, Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. So sure: "we should celebrate" the fact that Gorby did in the end "get it 100% right" -- he did finally "Take down this wall!" But let's also give a hat tip to the man who demanded he do so -- and to both the Iron Lady and the Saint who backed that demand to the hilt.