While historic analogies are never perfect, Obama's stark efforts to change the U.S. image abroad are reminiscent of the stunning realignments sought by former Soviet leader Michael Gorbachev. During his short—by Soviet standards—tenure, he scrambled incessantly to shed the ideological entanglements that were leading the communist empire toward ruin.
Anyone remember how that worked out for the USSR??
You keep forgetting: Gorbachev sought to bring democracy to the Soviet Union, constantly being held up by that fascist Reagan. Remember Reagan walking out of Reykjavik after Gorbachev wanted to reach across the aisle to keep the arms race from spreading to space? Reagan, seeking to keep the Soviet Union under the boot of communism, shrewdly refused to budge. We can all thank Gorby for staging his own coup so that Reagan could be appeased with his "winner-take-all" philosophy. Gorbachev: the real hero of the Cold War!
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