Are Nixon’s and the Reagan administration’s crimes noticable on the scale of Clinton’s, George W. Bush’s, and Obama’s?
Not much remains of the once vibrant American left-wing. Among the brainwashed remnants there is such a hatred of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan that the commitment of these two presidents to ending dangerous military rivalries is unrecognized. Whenever I write about the illegal invasions of other countries launched by Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama, leftists point to Chile, Nicaragua and Grenada and say that nothing has changed. But a great deal has changed. In the 1970s and 1980s Nixon and Reagan focused on reducing Cold War tensions. Courageously, Nixon negotiated nuclear arms limitation agreements with the Soviet Union and opened to China, and Reagan negotiated with Gorbachev the end of the dangerous Cold War.
Beginning with the Clinton regime, the neoconservative doctrine of the US as the Uni-power exercising hegemony over the world has resurrected tensions between nuclear-armed powers. Clinton trashed the word of the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and expanded NATO throughout Eastern Europe and brought the military alliance to Russia’s border. The George W. Bush regime withdrew from the anti-ballistic missile treaty, revised US war doctrine to permit pre-emptive nuclear attack, and negotiated with Washington’s East European vassals to put anti-ballistic missiles on Russia’s borders in an effort to neutralize Russia’s nuclear deterrent, thus bringing major security problems to Russia. The Obama regime staged a coup against a government allied with Russia in Ukraine, traditionally a part of Russia, and imposed a Russophobia government as Washington’s vassal. Turning to China, Washington announced the “pivot to Asia” with the purpose of controlling shipping in the South China Sea. Additionally, the Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama regimes fomented wars across a wide swath of the planet from Yugoslavia and Serbia through the Middle East and Africa to South Ossetia and now in Ukraine.
The neoconservative ideology rose from the post-Reagan collapse of the Soviet Union. The doctrine met the need of the US military/security complex for a new enemy in order to avoid downsizing. Washington’s pursuit of empire is a principal danger to life itself for everyone on the planet.
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Actually as presidential history goes, Nixon held liberal positions on domestic policies than Johnson. He was the one that created the EPA and other environmental preserving legislature. (1970)
ReplyDeleteIn 1970, he also created the Occupational Safety and Health Act otherwise known as OSHA to protect workers from occupational health issues.
He was the first president (not Johnson) to actually enforce Civil Rights desegregation, quashed Jim Crow in the South and North.
For the Native Americans (indigenous peoples), he used diligence to insure their land rights, overturned the long-standing government policy called termination and adamantly supported self-determination.
He also proposed many measures to help all American families create and maintain a decent standard of living. While some of his more liberal legislature failed - (Economic Stabilization Act 1970) and the minimum family salary legislature that failed to pass in both Houses, he was very active in proposing new legislature in this area until his resignation. His empathy for middle America is a result of Nixon's humble beginnings as he was not one of the Ivy League academic presidents whom had lost touch with the Silent Majority, Middle Class constituency.
Unfortunately, he was vilified by Watergate but he wasn't engaging in any activities that every president before him (including Jefferson) didn't use with their powers. In fact, a Roosevelt aid said when Nixon resigned, "We did worse but we didn't get caught." And yes, we're talking FDR's aid not Teddy's.
As time marches on, Nixon's presidency is seen in a more favorable light among academia and American historians.
Obama, the first un American President.
ReplyDelete513 in more ways than one.
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