Reagan’s Missile Defense Triumph by Andrew Nagorski Washington Post

 

If Ronald Reagan was watching the news from afar last week, he had to be smiling. Not because of President Obama’s decision to abandon the planned deployment of a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. Reagan certainly wouldn’t like the political symbolism of that gesture — walking away from an agreement with two allies in Central Europe and appearing to bend to pressure from the Kremlin. As a partisan fighter, he would be in line with the Republican chorus of disapproval.  Link to article  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092403934.html