Among Cold War presidents, from Truman to Bush I, there was an unwritten rule: Do not challenge Moscow in its Central and Eastern Europe sphere of influence.
In crises over Berlin in 1948 and 1961, the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 and the Warsaw Pact invasion of Prague in 1968, U.S. forces in Europe stayed in their barracks.
While Reagan sent weapons to anti-Communist rebels in Angola, Nicaragua and Afghanistan, to the heroic Poles of Gdansk he sent only mimeograph machines.
That Cold War caution and prudence may be at an end.
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Every thing that is wrong with our (FUSA) foreign policy can be summed up in phrase: We don't know how to mind our own damn business. Our so called best and brightest are in one sense all insane; they think we can impose our culture, values and political system on various people, who's culture and history NEVER would have produced it in the first place. The unseen and unspoken driving force behind US foreign policy, is that some body stands to make money off of it. And if we can not bribe/threaten them, then we wage war against them. Cynical? Yes I am.
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