OTHER COMMENTARY / EXCERPTS : Selling the Human Spirit Short
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When the history of this hemisphere is written, let it be noted that the communist dominoes began falling when Ronald Reagan ordered the liberation of Grenada. That operation not only gave hope to other countries whose freedom was in jeopardy, it showed that American military power was still alive and in the right hands would be used to achieve legitimate objectives. The final domino is Cuba.
Mikhail Gorbachev, man of the decade? Don’t make me laugh. He is presiding over the ash heap of communism. They ought to be putting up statues of Ronald Reagan in Managua, Panama City, San Salvador, Grenada and, one day, Havana.
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