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To: combjelly who wrote (268525)	1/13/2006 7:52:07 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572987

re: I was just quoting a junior senator from Illinois, I think. From Plano, IL? Maybe I'm confused.

To: combjelly who wrote (268525)	1/13/2006 9:08:08 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572987

Goldwater proposed creating a radioactive DMZ between N. and S. Vietnam! reason.com ..Goldwater had surely earned his reputation as a gunslinger with his proposal to use tactical nukes to defoliate Vietnam, his repeated calls to give NATO armies the right to use atomic weapons on their own, and his constant refrain that U.S. strategists shouldn’t let fear of nuclear war keep them from standing up to the Soviet Union. But, as Perlstein notes, Goldwater in this case was a mere echo of the mainstream foreign policy thinking in the Democratic Party. When it came to the Cold War, the two parties were both unremittingly hawkish. Goldwater’s decree that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" was merely the Reader’s Digest version of Kennedy’s Inaugural Day promise that "we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty."