Much of the country has in turn been persuaded to think that America can do no good in the world.
A new generation of Republicans, as well as Democrats, has come to the conclusion that the world is better off without our meddling and without our interference.
But Ronald Reagan knew how wrong that was, and how wrong it would always be.
As he said, 40 years ago: “It is better to be here ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We’ve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.”
Biden did fine. But these sentiments of Reagan will live forever. Because they are true.
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