Ridin out the Recession

THE FIRST PRINCIPLES of RONALD REAGAN’S FOREIGN POLICY

A neo-Reaganite grand strategy offers the surest guide for restoring and sustaining American greatness in the 21st century. It incorporates the principles of the Founding without slight6ing the perennial imperatives of power and geopolitics. It inoculates us from pessimism of unrealistic realists, who underestimate the possibility of provisional justice, and the dangerous illusions of idealists, who underrate the obstacles of achieving it in international politics. It can facilitate the expansion of stable liberal democracy and economic prosperity, thereby minimizing the number and gravity of the threats the United States faces. Its commitment of American exceptionalism and American military preeminence not only enhances deterrence, but reduces the blood, toil, tears, and sweat of the wars that the United States must fight. And it contrasts favorably with any other plausible alternative, be it unrealistic realism, liberal internationalism, isolationism, or utopian versions of neoconservatism unconstrained by geopolitical imperatives…….Robert Kaufman

Few Presidents have surpassed the achievements of Ronald Reagan, the greatest American President since World War 2 with FDR his only peer in the 20th century. The remarkable success of Reagan’s foreign, in particular is his indispensable role he played in defeating the Soviet Union, an evil, totalitarian empire that threatened freedom and world peace for over FOUR DECADES. His economic policies, based on free markets, low taxes, and less intrusive government regulations of private enterprise, catalyzed three decades of unprecedented economic dynamism and laid the foundation of America’s military primacy, on which the robustness of freedom still exists.

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