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In Reagan’s March 8, 1983 speech before the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, he refereed to the U.S.S.R as the ‘evil empire.’ He castigated the nuclear power ambitions of the Soviet Union. He also justified the NATO deployment of nuclear-tipped missiles in Western Europe as response to the Soviet deployment of its [...]

President Barack Obama acknowledges that the US is not winning the war in Afghanistan. He concedes to the difficulty of the Afghan scene just as he ordered last month the deployment of 17,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. When asked whether the US is winning the war in that country, his response is a resounding “No.” He is now considering the [...]