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Reagan laid out that vision in his State of the Union Address of 6 February 1985. We must not break faith, he declared, with those who are risking their lives—on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua—to defy Soviet-supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth. The president went on to equate anticommunist forces with American colonists who had fought the revolutionary war, describing those latter-day patriots as freedom fighters for democracy. Providing aid to those groups was not only morally just but geopolitically sound. Support for freedom fighters, Reagan avowed, is self-defense. It would be months before those declarations would take shape as a fixed statement of policy. Read more: americanforeignrelations/A-D/Doctrines-The-reagan-doctrine.html#ixzz3BDUgPa5s
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 12:13:32 +0000

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