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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Paul Smith who wrote (134323)3/24/2010 2:32:40 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 542164
 
>>I understand but I think domestic and international are actually linked in some ways as opposed to being separate buckets. A strong domestic situation allows for international leadership and a relatively stable international situation (absence of cold war) allows for domestic initiatives.<<

So you would characterize the current international situation as relatively stable? And because of that relatively stable situation, Obama and the Democratic Congress were able to concentrate on a major domestic initiative?

I won't go deeply into the question of whether the end of the cold war can be correctly characterized as an accomplishment of a Republican administration. As JohnM already pointed out, there are other ways of looking at that. Those other ways involve having some real knowledge of what was going on in the Soviet Union in its last years, and how internal problems led to its collapse.
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