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While most Americans hail these summits and now decry the invasion of Iraq (a case study in what happens when the militant conservatives get their way), the anti-engagers proceed as though history has not happened. Their selective memory of Reagan's foreign policy is telling. They correctly recall Reagan's having denounced the Soviets as "evil," his vast increases in U.S. defense spending and his support for a missile-defense shield. What they conveniently block out is the turn Reagan took in 1983 toward negotiation, which played a key role in bringing about the end of the cold...
...Webb is a natural-born provocateur and a human harbinger. His political journey predicted the switch of working-class white people to the Republicans 30 years ago, and in 2006 he became the first prominent Republican - he served as Secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan - to switch to the Democrats and run for high office, and win. He is also a terrific writer, of both fiction and fact. His preceding nonfiction book, about his Scots-Irish ancestors, was called Born Fighting, and I imagine if there's a sequel to A Time to Fight, it will be called...
...Your Rival Even after a long, hard primary fight (and sometimes because of it), the ultimate winner almost always has to consider bringing the loser aboard the ticket. That's what Ronald Reagan did when he picked George H.W. Bush in 1980 and how John Kerry came to choose John Edwards in 2004. Sometimes party unity simply demands it. "We ended up with the obvious choice," says adviser Bob Shrum of Kerry's decision to tap Edwards. "People in the party overwhelmingly wanted...
...Jimmy Carter (seven years in the Navy) didn't do so well. Old soldiers still grimace when recalling the military highlight of that presidency: 1980's failed mission to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran. The Desert One fiasco killed eight U.S. service members, doomed Carter to lose to Ronald Reagan later that year and primed the pump for Reagan's military buildup...
...Webb served four years as a Marine officer, some of that time in Vietnam, following his education at the U.S. Naval Academy. He left the service in 1972 and later served as Ronald Reagan's Navy Secretary before being elected in 2006 as a Democratic Senator from Virginia. Webb, a prolific writer and author, is haunted by a 1979 article he wrote for Washingtonian magazine titled "Women Can't Fight." He has since disowned that position, but it's a safe bet Hillary Clinton loyalists - whom the Obama campaign needs to woo into its camp...