Author: Michael Hirsh
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The New Meaning of ‘Munich’
For more than eight decades, the word “Munich” has meant one thing in international relations: a catastrophic policy of appeasement. Now, “Munich” may soon take on a fresh—and possibly even more fraught—meaning: the voluntary surrender of global hegemony. In a series of remarks leading up to the just-ended Munich Security Conference, senior Trump administration officials—including…
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Jimmy Carter Was the True Change Agent of the Cold War
The morning after U.S. presidential candidate Ronald Reagan crushed incumbent President Jimmy Carter with a 44-state landslide in 1980, the New York Times reported that demand for a “tougher American foreign policy” was a big part of the outcome. By almost a 2-1 ratio, voters in exit polls said, “They wanted this country to be…