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[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[Jhensy]

I'll never forget this: During the Democrat's convention week in 2000, C-Span showed famous speeches from past conventions. I watched Walter Mondale's acceptance speech from 1984 in it's entirety.

It would be a veritable laugh riot in it's wrongness if it wasn't so scary. History has shown that he was completely misguided on EVERY SINGLE POLICY he outlined. His cowering to the Soviets was unbelievable, his castigations of Reagan ridiculous. We'd still be mired in the Cold War if he was elected.

Scary viewing, and a must for those well-meaning lefties in your life.

[maica]

Thank goodness some writers are taking the time to put in writing the reality of the '80s. Go, Mona Charen!

[KC_Conspirator]

Doubtless Samantha Smith's letter to the leader of the USSR was motivated in part by the beliefs of her parents. Her mother, Jane Smith, told reporters that Samantha "thinks it would be better to spend more money on programs for the poor rather than on bombs." She was even asked to question the Democratic candidates for president. (Smith died tragically in a plane crash a couple of years later.) But she had many imitators. The "teachers of peace," ten school children from California made a similar pilgrimage to Moscow a couple of years later. The National Council of Churches organized a "crayon brigade" of children who wrote to their counterparts in the USSR expressing friendship and best wishes. Just as Jimmy Carter had taken advice from daughter Amy about nuclear proliferation, the nation was to take the counsel of elementary school children on world peace.

This is a great article. Charen does a great job of explaining how childish democrats are on foreign policy.