Once again. Bwahahaha! Ash is a liberal Brit twit who practices his art of historical revisionism at the Hoover Institute. He's been on Jim Lehrer's little PBS news show on occasion.
"The United States will not let the Soviet Union dictate Poland's future with impunity," Reagan wrote the Pope on December 29, 1981.
"I am announcing today additional American measures aimed at raising the cost to the Russians of their continued violence against Poland. … Unfortunately, if these American measures are not accompanied by other Western countries, the Russians may decide to pursue repression, hoping to provoke a rupture within the Western world, while escaping the consequences of our measures. … I therefore ask your assistance in using your own suasion throughout the West in an attempt to achieve unity on these needed measures [economic sanctions on Poland and the Soviet Union]… I hope you will do whatever is in your power to stress these truths to the leaders of the West."
I know, I know, Reagan is just another left wing commie.