TIME: The Speech That Brought Down a Wall (Reagan's 'Tear Down This Wall')

TIME Magazine ^ | 6/12/07

[lonestar67]

Even less time will pass before the Bush haters of the Left and Right must acknowledge that Bush’s advocacy of Global Democracy was necessary and brilliant.

[Uncle Hal]

The MSM condemned this speech when it was made. Now they think it was great. Hindsight is 20/20.

[Badeye]

Its worth mentioning Colin Powell was also against Reagan making that famous request of Gorby and company.

[krb]

> There also needs to be a little credit for President Bush Sr. whom was actually President when the wall came down.

When the wall fell, President Bush had been in office just a tad longer than W. had been in office when 9/11 happened. That is, I don't think Bush deserves very much credit regarding responsibility at all.

[tobyhill]

I was in Germany at the time and President Bush had authorized a lot of covert activities that helped get the East Germans in a frenzy. I don’t know all of what was authorized but it wasn’t a couple months after Bush took office I caught a Soviet “diplomat” scout scoping our site and at that time I knew something weird was starting to happen.