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Article: Kerry's cold war: lest we forget ...(political activity and opinions of John F. Kerry related to Cold War events)
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- National Review
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- November 8, 2004
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IN the first presidential debate, John Kerry, adopting his most statesmanlike pose, scored President Bush for damaging U.S. "credibility" among world leaders. "We need to rebuild our alliances. I believe that Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, and the others did that more effectively, and I'm going to try to follow in their footsteps."
Give the man credit for audacity. For Kerry to invoke Ronald Reagan is a little like Henry II invoking Becket. With the possible exceptions of Christopher Dodd and Tom Harkin, no senator did more than Kerry to thwart Reagan's vigorous foreign policy. Kerry was a charter member of the anti-anti-Communist club. There was no measure that ...