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Monday, June 29, 2009 11:42 AM

REAGAN: Does appeasement work? Ask my dad

By MICHAEL REAGAN, Making Sense

In conjunction with my Reagan Legacy Foundation, I recently marked the 22nd anniversary of my father’s famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin by publicly announcing an agreement with the Mauer Museum to permanently house a wing dedicated to Ronald Reagan and his leading role in ending the Cold War and reuniting the German people.  During a related press event, I was able to share the story about the drafting of the speech, recalling that officials at the U.S. State Department were less than impressed with my father’s draft.  In fact, they went so far as to have crossed out the most famous and confrontational paragraph challenging President Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

You see, some folks at the State Department felt that by taking an aggressive stance towards the Soviet Union the United States would make them feel further threatened and isolated — as if appeasement had ever worked.  Rather than succumbing to the bureaucratic methodology of “peace through submission,” my father believed and practiced a policy of “peace through strength.”

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