Editor's Note: Here we go again. In the GOP view of things, Ronald Reagan ended communism in Russia. In fact, a French journalist, Andrei Amalrik, visited the USSR in the 1960s and predicted the decline of communism long before Reagan was president. His book, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? was published in 1970. The USSR was crumbling from the inside.
The GOP likes to have enemies because it is good for defense. George W. Bush was gallivanting around Eastern Europe and Georgia like he was fighting the old Soviet Union. Bush so emboldened the Georgians that they attacked Russian nationals in South Ossetia. The Russian response doomed Bush aspirations in Eastern Europe. Most political scientists in the US would agree with the Obama speech that was given to the New Economic School in Moscow.
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For example, ex- Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Liz Cheney criticized Obama’s speech, which he delivered to the New Economic School graduates.
“There are two different versions of the story of the end of the Cold War: the Russian version, and the truth. President Barack Obama endorsed the Russian version in Moscow,” Liz Cheney told The Wall Street Journal.
The official disliked Obama’s remarks that the Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions taken by many nations over many years, including Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe. By Cheney’s opinion, the decisive role was played by “the commitment of free nations to defend liberty and defeat Communism."
“It is irresponsible for an American president to go to Moscow and tell a room full of young Russians less than the truth about how the Cold War ended,” she said.
Cheney wants the White House to take a lesson from President Harry Truman who was one of the ideologists of the Cold War initiation and armament race.
Experts say that Cheney’s attack against irresponsible statements is no surprise. It would be, on the contrary, strange if the efforts to improve Russian-American relationships did not draw Republicans’ criticism. American neoconservatives consider Obama to be a dangerous idealist.
There were neither anti-American nor pro-Russian notes in Obama’s speeches. He simply said what one could never hear form the US Republican Party representatives . Obama simply acknowledged the role of Russia in the history of world civilization. The Russian authorities have a common feeling that Obama is sincere in his approach. He is obviously not liable to the Cold War sentiments.
The US President will unlikely react to conservatives’ attacks, though he will have to defend his position, demonstrating that he protects national interests.
source: http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/15-07-2009/108153-obama_russia-0
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