“The Corner” at NRO has a POP QUIZ. Here are a few of the quotes which describe one or the other. Can you figure out which?
5)”In a day of protests across Western Europe, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated against the [American policy]” The protest organizers said about 1.2 million people took part in the demonstrations”. Hundreds of thousands jammed central London in what was said to be the largest protest of its kind in British history. In Rome, an estimated 350,000 marchers paraded through the center of the city.”
6) “Europe Sees U.S. Foreign Policy As Out Of Control” Los Angeles Times headline
7) “Speaking to members of the American Stock Exchange, [Senator Edward] Kennedy said, ?Our present course is taking the United States toward unilateral intervention…toward a war, whether we want it or not, whether we like it or not, (that) will inevitably involve American forces in combat. But surely, an American invasion’ would plunge us into the most unwanted, unnecessary and unjustified war in our history,? Kennedy said…. Kennedy said Congress must propose ?an alternative policy with a real prospect of success.? ?So, as a first step, we must call off the dogs of war,? he said.”
9) “[The President] has substituted a mindless militarism for a foreign policy…frightening our friends…. Already, the cost of [the President?s] policies is devastating to our country in economic strength, in diplomatic influence, in national security, in moral stature.”
16)”What is the world to think when the greatest of powers is led by a man who applies to the most difficult human problem a simplistic theology…one in fact rejected by most theologians?… What must the leaders of Western Europe think of such a speech?… The exaggeration and the simplicities are there not only in the rhetoric but in the process by which he makes decisions.”
19) “‘[The President] has been a divider, not a uniter…. The American people will reject four more years of danger, four more years of pain,? [a leading congressional Democrat] said.”
QUIZ ANSWERS
Every one of those quotes was about Reagan.
5) James M. Markham, New York Times, October 23, 1983
6)Los Angeles Times headline, December 4, 1986
7) United Press International, June 11, 1985
9) John B. Oakes, former senior editor, New York Times, November 1, 1981
16) Anthony Lewis, New York Times, March 10, 1983
19) The Associated Press, January 30, 1984