Mitchell Bard: Why Do So Many Republicans Hate America?: "Republicans deify Ronald Reagan for standing in West Berlin and saying, 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.' But Reagan wasn't talking about lousy architecture. Rather, he was saying that on one side of the wall lived the good guys who enjoyed democratic freedoms, and on the other side resided people who had no freedom and lived under the oppression of the bad guys, the Communists. It was the guys in the East that did things, like, say, torturing people and holding them without charging them, while such atrocities would never go on in the West.
But what if the governments on both sides of the wall tortured people and held suspects without trial? What then? Would Reagan's words have meant anything?"
(Via Huffington Blog.)
