THERE THEY GO AGAIN Final Edition

For years now we have been hearing Bill Clinton and other Democratic luminaries (most recently, Bill Bradley) tell us how difficult the world is today compared with Cold War days when things were easy. Easy because communism was evil, and we knew it, and thus our decisions about how to act in the wo...

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Main Author Charles Krauthammer Charles Krauthammer is a columnist for The Washington Post Writers Group
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Memphis, Tenn Gannett Media Corp 16.04.2000
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WASHINGTON
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Summary:For years now we have been hearing Bill Clinton and other Democratic luminaries (most recently, Bill Bradley) tell us how difficult the world is today compared with Cold War days when things were easy. Easy because communism was evil, and we knew it, and thus our decisions about how to act in the world were informed by the moral imperative to oppose it. It is a nice little fable. In reality, anti-communism was not the lodestar that guided us all - liberal and conservative - during the Cold War. Almost every anti-Communist initiative championed by conservatives in the last two decades of the Cold War - from the [Ronald] Reagan arms buildup to aiding the Nicaraguan contras - met strenuous liberal opposition. Which is why the Elian Gonzalez case is so instructive. It is a Cold War struggle occurring 10 years late. And being such an anachronism, it serves as a time capsule, illuminating perfectly who stood where during the Cold War.
ISSN:0745-4856