{"id":244,"date":"2002-02-26T17:55:50","date_gmt":"2002-02-27T00:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/cowboy-diplomacy\/"},"modified":"2002-02-26T17:55:50","modified_gmt":"2002-02-27T00:55:50","slug":"cowboy-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/26\/cowboy-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboy diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tworks, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsandopinion.com\/0202\/schneider.html\">William Schneider<\/a>, who compares &#8220;Axis of Evil&#8221; with Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;Go ahead, make my day.&#8221; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nReagan&#8217;s policy was, &#8220;Talk tough, and carry a big stick.&#8221; In the end, it worked. The evil empire crumbled. Europeans scoffed in 1987, when Reagan stood at the Berlin Wall and said, &#8220;Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!&#8221; But two years later, the wall came down.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Euro-weenies have such a short memory.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>works, according to William Schneider, who compares &#8220;Axis of Evil&#8221; with Reagan&#8217;s &#8220;Go ahead, make my day.&#8221; Reagan&#8217;s policy was, &#8220;Talk tough, and carry a big stick.&#8221; In the end, it worked. The evil empire crumbled. Europeans scoffed in 1987, when Reagan stood at the Berlin Wall and said, &#8220;Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/26\/cowboy-diplomacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cowboy diplomacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-3W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}