In Chicago last week, the Democratic Party’s A-list was on full display, but it wasn’t the kind of A-list you might think. It was a list of foreign policy abominables, the Democratic leaders responsible for squandering America’s hard-fought Cold War victory and creating the conditions for today’s increasingly dangerous confrontations with Russia, China, and Iran. The blunders began under former President Bill Clinton and have continued unabated through the Biden-Harris presidency.
First, for those who didn’t live through it, here’s a quick primer on the end of the Cold War. It began nine months after President Ronald Reagan left office when the Berlin Wall was smashed by freedom-loving citizens while Communist East German soldiers watched helplessly. A week and a half later, the Velvet Revolution of 1989 began in Czechoslovakia and spread rapidly across Russian-dominated Eastern Europe.
