How to Honor Ronald Reagan
POSTED BY: AnthonyT
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Hello,
I saw this article and was surprised. First, I was surprised that he needs a special commemoration. Second, I was surprised that the massive war machine named in his honor was not a sufficient remembrance. Nor, presumably, the library he was allowed to create upon his retirement.
Do we honor all presidents with special monuments on their 100th birthdays?
--Anthony
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Communism is its own pathetic legacy. Better to teach all of its colossal failures & attack on the spirit of free peoples of the world than to erect yet another temple of marble , glass and steel.
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
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Would such a statue or monument be made in China?
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We *could* honor Reagan by restoring the income tax rates to where they were during his presidency. After all, if those were such great days for our economy, surely the tax rates played a huge role in that greatness!
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Would such a statue or monument be made in China?
"Keep the Shiny side up"
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I like Mr. Frum's idea.
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Let me suggest something: A museum in Washington dedicated to the victims of communism.
The struggle against communism impelled American foreign policy for almost half a century. That struggle was also the central concern of Ronald Reagan's political life. As much as Reagan cared about the geopolitics of the struggle, he cared even more about the human victims of communism's brutal totalitarian ideology.
The countries of Eastern Europe are now memorializing their terrible experiences under communism.
A particularly impressive museum has opened in Budapest, Hungary. But Eastern Europe did not suffer alone. Cambodia, China, Cuba, Ethiopia and Afghanistan also have their stories to tell.
A "Ronald Reagan Museum of the Victims of Communism" in Washington would ensure that these stories were kept alive and made vivid for future generations.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington offers an outstanding example to emulate.
The Holocaust Museum has emerged as one of Washington's most-visited sites. It offers a message that is purposeful as well as mournful. It's a message propounded from the National Archives to the Lincoln Memorial -- and a message to which Ronald Reagan devoted his political life:
The principles on which the United States is built are not mere preferences. Reject those principles, and you are embarking on a nightmare that can culminate in the ultimate horrors of human injustice, oppression, cruelty and violence.
As yet, the crimes of communism are appallingly minimized, excused or even condoned in the places where they were ordered, places such as Moscow, Havana, Beijing and Hanoi. Earlier this year, I had the chance to visit the one and only public remembrance of the Cultural Revolution in all China, a small museum in a park on the outskirts of a provincial city.
What could be more fitting than to remember those crimes in the city that we called the capital of the free world during the struggle against communism? And in the name of the president who not only spoke so eloquently against those crimes, but who issued the challenge that presaged communism's downfall?
So there's my proposal for the new Congress. Introduce a bill to authorize the development of the museum on February 6, with a view to completing work in time for Reagan's 110th birthday in 2021. Instead of a statue, remember this president who so valued the individual with a monument that will restore the individuality of wronged, imprisoned and murdered millions.
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Hello,
I find the whole 'struggle against communism' and the 'crimes of communism' and the 'victims of communism' to be somewhat disingenuous. We were not struggling against a philosophy of economics and governance. We were struggling against a league of countries that we believed posed a threat to us. These countries could have been a league of monarchies just as easily. Or theocracies. Or totalitarian regimes or cruel dictatorships. *clears throat at Cuba*
Functionally, I don't think our struggle against Communism would have been very different if the Communists were all Nazis, would it? The red menace could have been the gray menace. Communism is just a paint-job used to cover something else.
In the midst of our struggle against communism, we had our own struggles at home. Mccarthyism clearly demonstrated our fine capacity, as a Nation that operated on principles far from communism, to become beastly. In fact, I'd say that any monument to the 'victims of Communism' would have to include communists and accused communists from within our own borders, who may not have been slain- but were definitely victimized by us for being associated with a hated philosophy.
In a few decades, when we erect a monument to the Victims of Terrorism, I'd hate to see how tall and wide that wall will have to be to accommodate all the names. More appalling will be to see how many of the Terrorists who victimized people were U.S.
--Anthony
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AnthonyT wrote:
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 09:55
Hello,
I find the whole 'struggle against communism' and the 'crimes of communism' and the 'victims of communism' to be somewhat disingenuous.
Try telling the folks in Poland and other Eastern block nations all about that. I'm sure they'd love hearing your point of view on this matter.
Chrissy - Obama doesn't need a statue.
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
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"Try telling the folks in Poland and other Eastern block nations all about that. I'm sure they'd love hearing your point of view on this matter."
Hello,
Try telling those who suffer under dictators and opressive regimes that it is not bad men who covet power who hurt them. It is not government psychopaths with clubs who abuse them. They are not the victims of cowardly and selfish men who fear to lose their control over others. Rather, it is a philosophy that oppresses them.
It is sure to come as a startling revelation: If Castro was a King instead of a Communist, Cuba would be a paradise.
--Anthony
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