Obama Should Have Invoked Gorbachev, Not Reagan

Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling. It seems the Missile Gap will not be the only thing that will go down in history as being unreliable and false. So too will President Barack Obama’s invocation of the late Republican President Ronald Reagan, when he urged bipartisan support for the new START nuclear arms treaty with Russia. (Recall that during the 1960 presidential campaign, the term “missile gap” became newspeak for the supposed lead held by the Soviet Union. It was later publicly admitted that there was not and never had been a significant missile gap, nor did the Soviets ever lead the U.S. in the number of nuclear warheads and missile technologies.) This time, the missile…

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Obama Should Have Invoked Gorbachev, Not Reagan

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